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Poverty

Is Income Inequality 'Morally Wrong'?

Faith and Public Life | July 25, 2013 | Poverty

At CNN Opinion, John D. Sutter asked a philosopher, a think tank president and some academics this question: “Is extreme inequality amoral?” AEI’s president, Arthur Brooks, answered by saying that while inequality isn’t a moral problem, we...

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Government Spends Four Times the Amount Necessary to End Poverty in America

Kurt Jaros | July 24, 2013 | Poverty

Peter Ferrara of the Heartland Institute recently wrote that the US Census Bureau “estimates that our current welfare spending totals four times what would be necessary just to give all the poor the cash to bring them up to the poverty line, eliminating all...

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Kurt Jaros is the Executive Director of Defenders Media.

The Shift from 'Alleviating Poverty' to 'Creating Prosperity'

Faith and Public Life | July 9, 2013 | Poverty

In “The Shift from ‘Alleviating Poverty’ to ‘Creating Prosperity,’” Michael Matheson Miller rethinks the Christian response to poverty in the developing world, suggesting that material generosity may be the wrong approach to alleviating the problem....

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Doing Bad by Doing Good

Jacqueline Isaacs | June 27, 2013 | Poverty

The Cato Institute recently hosted an event with Christopher J. Coyne called “Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails” to discuss his new book by the same title. Coyne is a professor at George Mason University and the director of the F. A. Hayek Program...

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Jacqueline Isaacs is the Director of Strategy for Bellwether Communications, where she crafts content strategies for thought leaders.

What We Can Learn from Margaret Thatcher on Income Inequality

Jacqueline Isaacs | April 25, 2013 | Poverty

An ideological standard-bearer of free markets and limited government recently moved on to the freedom of which she saw only a glimmer in her lifetime. I’d venture to guess that most of you have also seen this video of Margaret Thatcher’s last House of...

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Jacqueline Isaacs is the Director of Strategy for Bellwether Communications, where she crafts content strategies for thought leaders.

Poverty's Greatest Foe

Chris Horst | April 22, 2013 | Poverty

Winston Churchill once said, “Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.” Do young Americans believe entrepreneurship is a target, cow or...

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Chris Horst is the Director of Development for HOPE International.