"For Love of Neighbor" is a new documentary film offering a hopeful vision for Christian engagement in politics. Click here to learn more.

Economics

Harvard Poll: Millennials “Mugged by Reality” on Obamacare

Josh Good | December 6, 2013 | Politics

Harvard University released the results of a new national poll this week, examining the latest attitudes of 18- to 29-year-olds on matters of political economy. The big surprise is that Millennials overwhelmingly disapprove of Obamacare. In a survey of 2,089...

Read More

Josh Good is director of EPPC’s Faith Angle Forum, which helps mainstream reporters to better understand religion.

How the Fed Has Made Unemployment a Good Thing

Nicholas Freiling | December 3, 2013 | Economics

Imagine a world where unemployment is good—where fewer people working means more prosperity. Both time and resources would be infinitely abundant. Consumer goods would invent themselves. The standard of living would improve most swiftly when human beings stay out of...

Read More

<img data-del="avatar" src='https://faithandpubliclife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20141106_square1-150x150.jpg' class='avatar pp-user-avatar avatar-125 photo ' height='125' width='125'/>

Nicholas Freiling

Nick Freiling is Founder/Director of Haven Insights, a DC-based market research firm.

The Damage of Regulation in the Healthcare Industry: Nothing New

Jessica Rabe | December 2, 2013 | Politics

The Affordable Care Act has been the focus of the media’s attention for months. As the website fails, premiums skyrocket, and millions lose their health insurance plans and doctors, a once polarizing bill has congregated Democrats and Republicans as they question the...

Read More

Jessica Lynn Rabe is a research associate at ConvergEx Group, a global brokerage company based in New York.

Placing Blame Where Blame Is Due

Nicholas Freiling | November 29, 2013 | Society

In his book “Life at the Bottom,” Dr. Theodore Dalrymple describes the common behaviors that he observes in many of his lower-class patients. Among the most apparent of these is an attitude of “dishonest fatalism”—a consistent unwillingness to accept blame. “The knife...

Read More

<img data-del="avatar" src='https://faithandpubliclife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20141106_square1-150x150.jpg' class='avatar pp-user-avatar avatar-125 photo ' height='125' width='125'/>

Nicholas Freiling

Nick Freiling is Founder/Director of Haven Insights, a DC-based market research firm.

Two Views: Would Widespread Economic and Political Freedom Create Global Peace?

Faith and Public Life | November 25, 2013 | Global Affairs

Recipient of a Values & Capitalism mini-grant, the Houghton Star (the student newspaper of Houghton College) published its first “Two Views” page last Friday. Two student writers with differing opinions answered the question: “Would widespread economic and...

Read More

Faith and Public Life

This post was published by the website administrator.