Some time ago, economist Walter Williams offered some apt advice in an article entitled, “How Not to be Poor.” This piece has stayed with me in my income...
When Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century was published in English earlier this spring, the issue of inequality was brought again to the forefront of a very...
On Monday, Dr. Anne Bradley, IFWE’s vice president of economic initiatives, and Elise Amyx, IFWE’s academic outreach manager, went to the Cato Institute to speak to some Christian...
As I mentioned in a previous post, income inequality per se is not a harbinger of poverty. But why? Economist David Henderson explains it this way: How does...
Next month the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics is launching its first edited volume, For the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty. I author a...
Mike Rowe, the former host of Dirty Jobs, recently dismissed worries over income inequality on CNN. In an interview with Erin Burnett, he said, The idea that everybody...
Today, the poor seem to have less of a chance to climb the socioeconomic ladder than ever in America. One group that is especially vulnerable to this trend...
In his State of the Union Address, President Obama spoke about using an executive order to increase the minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour...
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Envy on the Upswing in America
Is envy is on the upswing in America? Echoing what Mike Rowe said recently about wealth envy, American Enterprise Institute President Arthur Brooks pushes further to say wealth...