It’s been seventeen years since Congress passed welfare reform. I’m looking for a detailed study of what happened to people who were on welfare back in the day...
Economists at the Brookings Institute bring the happy news that the United Nations’ goal to reduce the number of people in extreme poverty by fifty percent by 2015...
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...
How do well-enforced property rights affect the poor? In a video produced by the International Justice Mission, one Ugandan woman explains, In this part of the country, land...
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 groundbreaking book, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto says that private property rights...
In his recent Gates Foundation’s annual letter Bill Gates makes the shocking prediction that, “By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.” What...
“Who’s looking after the poor when the machete is coming after them?” Gary Haugen, President and CEO of International Justice Mission (IJM), asked this question in a live...
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