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  • The Left Cherry-Picks Poverty Data to Make America Look as Dickensian as Possible

    11/16/2015 6:44:15 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 4 replies
    National Review ^ | 11/16/2015 | By Michael J. Petrilli & Brandon L. Wright
    As a general rule, when scholars call your work "garbage" and "nonsensical," either you've struck a nerve or made a horrible blunder. When it comes to a Vox attack on our recent National Review Online article, "America's Unexceptional Poverty Rate," we think it's more the former than the latter. Nonetheless, we appreciate the critique from Vox's Dylan Matthews, as it raises important and reasonable questions, both about our methodology and about the larger social policies issues at stake. Let's tackle the methods first. What we attempted to do in our Education Next article, "America's Mediocre Test Scores," and in...
  • The Bible Speaks On Welfare

    11/15/2015 7:17:21 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 11 replies
    Since 1964 the United States Governments (Federal and State) have transferred over five trillion dollars from the middle class and the rich to the poor. Are the poor better off today or have they become more enslaved and dependent on government? How much is five trillion dollars? A billion dollars is one thousand million dollars. A trillion dollars is one thousand billion dollars, thus five trillion dollars is five thousand billion dollars. That amount is inconceivable to the human mind. That is how much government has taken from the middle and rich class and transferred it to the poor. This...
  • The Paradox of Poverty – A Homily for the 32nd Sunday of the Year

    11/08/2015 6:49:11 AM PST · by Salvation · 14 replies
    Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 11-07-15 | Msgr. Charles Pope
    Archdiocese of Washington The Paradox of Poverty -- A Homily for the 32nd Sunday of the Year Msgr. Charles Pope • November 7, 2015 • The first reading in today's Mass, from 1st Kings, speaks to us of the paradox of poverty. And the paradox is this: it is often our poverty, our neediness, that provides a doorway for God to bless us with true riches. It is our emptiness that provides room for God to go to work.Yes, in our riches we have "too much to lose." To the rich and worldly minded, the Gospel seems too demanding. But...
  • Billionaire Says Socialism Needed to Stem Climate Disaster [semi-satire]

    11/07/2015 4:13:36 PM PST · by John Semmens · 9 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 8 Nov 2015 | John Semmens
    Microsoft multi-billionaire Bill Gates averred that freedom and democracy will need to be sacrificed if we are to avert climate disaster. "Left to their own devices, common people don’t see the need for action to prevent global warming," Gates lamented. "They are too prone to place having a job, food on the table, and a comfortable home ahead of working against global warming." Gates advised "a top down imposition of socialism to overcome individual resistance to the measures deemed essential for taming runaway climate change. Only socialism can stifle prosperity sufficiently to achieve the reductions in human activities that contribute...
  • 21 Shocking Facts About The Explosive Growth Of Poverty In America

    11/03/2015 10:29:40 AM PST · by Nachum · 56 replies
    zero hedge ^ | 11/3/15 | tyler durden
    Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,What you are about to see is more evidence that the growth of poverty in the United States is wildly out of control.  It turns out that there is a tremendous amount of suffering in “the wealthiest nation on the planet”, and it is getting worse with each passing year.  During this election season, politicians of all stripes are running around telling all of us how great we are, but is that really true? As you will see below, poverty is reaching unprecedented levels in this country, and the middle class is...
  • America’s Unexceptional Poverty Rate

    11/03/2015 3:49:57 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 16 replies
    National Review ^ | 11/03/2015 | by MICHAEL J. PETRILLI & BRANDON L. WRIGHT
    Bernie Sanders often claims that America has the highest child-poverty rate of any advanced democracy in the world. He uses this fact to justify his call for a European-style social-welfare state. But what if it’s simply not true? In a new article for the journal Education Next, we demonstrate that when cross-national poverty rates are calculated appropriately, it becomes clear that America is rather unexceptional, at least on this score. We have a significantly lower proportion of children living in poverty than Ireland and the United Kingdom, and about the same as Germany and even Finland. How can that...
  • America's longest and most expensive war: A New War on Poverty [Jeremiah 17]

    10/26/2015 7:08:34 PM PDT · by Jan_Sobieski · 6 replies
    Cato Institute ^ | 01/08/2014 | Michael D. Tanner
    Examples of the failures of government, large and small, are pretty easy to come by. Solyndra, the Iraq War, the response to Hurricane Katrina, Obamcare: Take your pick. But in terms of both wasted money and human suffering, it’s hard to find a more egregious government failure than the War on Poverty. It was 50 years ago today that Lyndon Johnson announced, as the centerpiece of his first State of the Union address, an “unconditional war on poverty in America.” No one could deny that poverty was a serious problem at the time. Roughly 19 percent of Americans were poor,...
  • The Poor in the US Are Richer than the Middle Class in Much of Europe

    10/18/2015 2:44:21 PM PDT · by expat_panama · 35 replies
    Mises Wire ^ | October 16, 2015 | Ryan McMaken
    In this week's debate, Bernie Sanders claimed that the United States has the highest rate of childhood poverty. CBS reports that Sanders said: "We should not be the country that has the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country and more wealth and income inequality than any other country," As even CBS notes, according to UNICEF, which is probably the source of Sanders's factoid, the US has lower childhood poverty rates than Greece, Spain, Mexico, Latvia, and Israel, all of which are OECD countries or regarded as peer countries. The US rate (32.2 percent) is also more or...
  • Wealth, Poverty and Politics

    10/14/2015 8:03:12 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 27 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | October 14, 2015 | Walter E. Williams
    Dr. Thomas Sowell, my colleague and friend, told me several years ago that he wasn't going to write any more books, but that was two books ago, and now he has just published his 45th. The man writes with both hands, as can be seen from his website (http://tsowell.com), which lists his 45 books, 19 journal articles, 71 essays in periodicals and books, 34 book reviews, and occasional columns written in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Star, Newsweek, The Times (Britain) et al. Plus, he writes a semiweekly...
  • Global Poverty's Defeat Is Capitalism's Triumph

    10/12/2015 7:13:43 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 3 replies
    IBD ^ | 10/12/2015 | MARIAN L. TUPY
    Despite the recent recession in the West, absolute poverty is continuing to retreat in fast-growing developing countries. The escape from poverty that was once limited to the industrialized countries of the West is also happening in "the rest." Unfortunately, many people remain unaware of the dramatic decline in global poverty, let alone the reasons for it. According to an announcement released this week by World Bank, "less than 10% of the world's population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015." The bank has "used a new income figure of $1.90 per day to define extreme poverty,...
  • The Dramatic Decline in World Poverty

    10/12/2015 4:27:48 AM PDT · by expat_panama · 31 replies
    Investors Busniness Daily ^ | 10/09/2015 | MARIAN L. TUPY
    Despite the recent recession in the West, absolute poverty is continuing to retreat in fast-growing developing countries. The escape from poverty that was once limited to the industrialized countries of the West is also happening in "the rest." Unfortunately, many people remain unaware of the dramatic decline in global poverty, let alone the reasons for it. According to an announcement released this week by the World Bank, "less than 10% of the world's population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015." The bank has "used a new income figure of $1.90 per day to define extreme...
  • Sturm: The Pope and Sanders: Misguided economic missionaries

    10/08/2015 8:47:05 AM PDT · by LibertysWordsmith · 1 replies
    The Aspen Times ^ | October 8, 2015 | Melanie Sturm
    If only Pope Francis were in my Buenos Aires taxi last Christmas. I could have used his moral authority (and Argentine-accented Spanish) in negotiating with a driver who’d forgotten the Golden Rule. And in witnessing my struggle, the self-described “very allergic to economics” pontiff might have gleaned a moral lesson, helping him Think Again about the free-enterprise system he’s criticized.
  • If Your Town Is Failing, Just Go: A prescription for impoverished communities

    10/06/2015 7:23:49 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 27 replies
    National Review ^ | 10/06/2015 | Kevin D. Williamson
    The town where my parents grew up and where my grandparents lived no longer exists. Phillips, Texas, is a ghost town. Before that it was a company town, a more or less wholly owned subsidiary of the Phillips Petroleum Company. Phillips had already lost a great deal of its population as highway improvements sent residents off to the relative urban sophistication of Borger, and there were fewer than 2,000 people living there in 1980 when an explosion at the refinery destroyed practically all of the town’s economic infrastructure, along with a fair number of houses. Phillips, Inc., in the end...
  • I get food stamps, and I’m not ashamed — I’m angry

    10/05/2015 10:17:02 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 148 replies
    Vox ^ | September 16, 2015 | Christine Gilbert
    My name is Christine, and I get food stamps. I've had to apply off and on over the past 16 years in order to make sure my family was fed. I don't feel the least bit ashamed of myself for this, but apparently some people think I should. Some people think I, and people like me, am lazy. Or that we're taking advantage of other (smarter, harder-working) people. Those people seem to have an image in their heads of how someone who "deserves" assistance behaves, and a very narrow idea of how we should feel about it. Those people are...
  • World's 'extremely poor' to fall below 10 percent of global population: World Bank

    10/04/2015 6:57:24 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 8 replies
    Reuters ^ | 10/04/2015 | BY SEBASTIEN MALO
    NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of people living in extreme poverty is likely to fall for the first time below 10 percent of the world's population in 2015, the World Bank said on Sunday as it revised its benchmark for measuring the problem. Extreme poverty has long been defined as living on or below $1.25 a day, but the World Bank's adjustment now sets the poverty line at $1.90 a day. The Bank said the change reflects new data on differences in the cost of living across countries, while preserving the real purchasing power of the previous...
  • Pope Francis's Crusade Against Fossil Fuels Hurts The Poor Most Of All

    09/24/2015 10:00:40 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 36 replies
    Forbes ^ | 09/24/2015 | Alex Epstein
    “The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.” This was Pope Francis’s summary of his Encyclical earlier this year on the alleged destruction of our planet. The leading culprit, in his view, is humanity’s use of fossil FOSL -1.57% fuels, which he believes are immoral and should largely be illegal. This week, the Pope will be meeting with the President, addressing a joint session of Congress, and speaking to a crowd of over a million in Philadelphia, sharing his views in the name of concern for humanity, particularly the poor. “Like...
  • Pope Francis, in Washington, Addresses Poverty and Climate

    09/23/2015 12:51:50 PM PDT · by Biggirl · 23 replies
    The New York Times ^ | September 23, 2015 | Peter Baker,Michael D. Shear
    WASHINGTON — Pope Francis quietly but forcefully made his priorities clear during his first full day in the United States on Wednesday, urging in a pair of speeches a renewed emphasis on tackling global poverty, confronting climate change, caring for migrants and providing a welcoming church that is pastoral rather than doctrinaire.
  • No poverty, hunger in 15 years? UN sets sweeping new goals

    09/20/2015 11:16:01 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 10 replies
    Washington Post ^ | September 21 at 12:22 AM | Steven R. Hurst | AP
    <p>The Sustainable Development Goals are set for adoption by the 193 U.N. member states shortly after Pope Francis brings his activist message to the world body on Friday — a message sure to include calls to pull back from the abyss of a heating world and to spread global wealth among the neediest.</p>
  • Pope Francis Doesn’t Understand How to Alleviate Poverty

    09/20/2015 1:35:55 PM PDT · by Biggirl · 23 replies
    National Review ^ | September 20, 2015 | George F. Will
    Pope Francis embodies sanctity but comes trailing clouds of sanctimony. With a convert’s indiscriminate zeal, he embraces ideas impeccably fashionable, demonstrably false, and deeply reactionary. They would devastate the poor on whose behalf he purports to speak — if his policy prescriptions were not as implausible as his social diagnoses are shrill.
  • Fear of debt drove Clinton's dash for cash - They went from ‘dead broke’ to millionaires in months

    09/19/2015 2:18:18 PM PDT · by Zakeet · 22 replies
    Politico ^ | September 18, 2015 | Annie Karni and Isabelle Taft
    What Hillary Clinton and her husband, Bill, pay in local property taxes on two luxury homes ($104,303) is twice the income of an average family. She earns more for a 20-minute speech to an industry trade group than a dozen fast-food workers make in a year. Her book royalties last year brought in $5 million, part of the couple's $30.5 million in income. The Clintons are far from the "dead broke" couple, as she has described, who left the White House saddled with debt after Bill Clinton's presidency. In fact, they now rank comfortably among the top one-tenth of the...