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More Than Money Mar. 12, 2020
Our country spends over a trillion dollars a year on anti-poverty programs. We address the symptoms,... Read More
Unappreciated Crime Costs Jan. 15, 2020
Criminal activity imposes huge costs on black residents in low-income neighborhoods of cities such a... Read More
What's the Charitable Thing to Do About Inequality? Jan. 08, 2020
Our society has coined expressions like "philanthropist" and "season of giving" to encourage and hai... Read More
Facts Are the Antidote to Trump Derangement Syndrome Jan. 03, 2020
Being a conservative in perhaps the most liberal state in the country, Massachusetts, I'm often aske... Read More
Why Crime Is on the Decline Dec. 14, 2019
"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." — Aristotle Aristotle had a point, but there ... Read More
The Forgotten Debt Dec. 11, 2019
Congress and the media obsess endlessly over whether President Donald Trump should be impeached. Bo... Read More
Marriage and Pregnancy Reduce Crime Dec. 04, 2019
There's a general assumption in public policy discourse that economic policy and social policy are s... Read More
How Trump's Poverty Subsidy Enriches the Rich Nov. 21, 2019
Years ago, a Texas legislator who was occasionally known to take lobbyists' cash in exchange for a v... Read More
The Wealth Monopoly Nov. 13, 2019
I should start this homily on inequality by distinguishing income from wealth. Income is your annual... Read More
The Great Missing Topic Nov. 08, 2019
We don't care. You can check Pew or Gallup or any other polling company. We are running deficits tha... Read More
The Homeless You Will Always Have With You, but Not Too Close Sep. 26, 2019
WASHINGTON — Every morning, I take the four morning newspapers I subscribe to into the kitchen... Read More
Dems Will Make Homelessness Worse Sep. 25, 2019
If Democrats capture the White House in 2020, your own neighborhood is likely to look like the disea... Read More
Bad Law Keeps People Poor Aug. 28, 2019
Why does most of Africa stay poor while other parts of the world prosper? People blame things like ... Read More
Stupid News Aug. 07, 2019
"Fake news!" shouts the president. His supporters cheer. That drives my colleagues into a frenzy of... Read More
Rats Infest Our Cities, but There Are Bigger Barriers to a Better Life Aug. 06, 2019
GARY, Indiana — If you want to know the true state of a city, drive through all of it, not jus... Read More
Americans Need More 'Can Do,' Not More Candidates Aug. 01, 2019
Watching the political process play out is more discouraging each election cycle. Even the freshest ... Read More
What's Most Important? Jul. 24, 2019
Let's think about priorities. Say that you live in one of the dangerous high crime and poor schoolin... Read More
Minimum Wage Laws Are a Terrible Idea Jul. 17, 2019
Democrats in Congress have again brought the minimum wage to the national political stage. Legislati... Read More
Ilhan Omar's Ideological Attacks on Two Christian Pastors Jun. 26, 2019
Congressional hearings are a fixture in Washington and are supposedly a tool for investigation by th... Read More
Dems' Agenda: Kill Jobs; Pander to Freeloaders Jun. 19, 2019
Nine Democratic presidential hopefuls, including front-runners Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabe... Read More
