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Homeless Man Takes Stand Against the Minimum Wage

| December 23, 2013 | Economics

While President Obama, fast food workers, and a majority of Americans insist on raising the minimum wage, a homeless man from Washington, D.C. disagrees. Jeffery Mcneil is a writer and vendor for Street Sense (a Washington-area, non-profit newspaper that provides...
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.

“The Wire” Creator’s Misguided Call for Socialism

| December 17, 2013 | Society

David Simon knows his city. Most intimately, he knows its wounds, its brokenness, its painful groans. Simon is the creator of the highly lauded television sitcom “The Wire”—a gritty, true-to-life look into the criminal underground and justice system of a city that...
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Tyler Castle
Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.

Why “White Christmas” Is America’s Favorite Song

| December 13, 2013 | Society

Virtually every American is familiar with the song “White Christmas,” which Bing Crosby first performed on Christmas Day 1941 and released as a recording the next year. It spent 11 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Chart, and is, according to the Guinness Book of Records,...
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David Wilezol
David Wilezol is the co-author, with Bill Bennett, of the book “Is College Worth It?” He is also the associate producer for Bill’s nationally syndicated radio show “Morning in America.”