Example #23489 of government intervention into the marketplace hurting the poor
Don’t you hate it when those bastard free marketers push home loans on people who can’t afford the monthly payments, leading them to bankruptcy, homelessness and foreclosure? Yeah, me too, except, oh...
View ArticleThis Is White Privilege
Welp, that’s a bullet dodged. Contemplating a move to the District from my current home of Arlington, Virginia, I decided to see a house some of my (male) friends are moving into. I had to walk an...
View ArticleLiberals Excited That Less Than 15 Percent of Federal Anti-Poverty Programs...
ThinkProgress writer Igor Volsky seemsgenuinely excited that fewer than 15 out of 92 federal anti-poverty programs are somewhat effective. The results came out of a report commissioned by...
View ArticlePaul Ryan and the GOP’s Changing Tune on Poverty
Recently in the Wall Street Journal, Paul Ryan had a touching, personal story about his changed attitudes on American poverty. Ryan discusses how he came to realize that rhetoric around welfare that...
View ArticleOur Own Little Worlds
Sometimes I read something shockingly close to something I’ve thought about writing for months, turning it over in my mind, thinking up new arguments, gathering data points, but never writing it,...
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