EconomyCommentary
According to widely reported survey data, women’s substantial gains in education, labor force participation, and earnings haven’t made them better off during retirement. But that… Read More
EconomyCommentary
We’ve heard about the alleged “wage gap” between men and women, but what about the real pay gap between private and public sector employees? An… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Thomas Sowell has just published a revised and enlarged edition of his classic “Wealth, Poverty and Politics.” At the very beginning, he quotes Alexander Hamilton,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, having a net worth of $81.8 billion, and Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, having a net worth of $70.4 billion, are the… Read More
EconomyNews
President Barack Obama will be speaking this week for the last time during his presidency to annual dinners for black and Hispanic members of Congress,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The phrase “income inequality” has a lot going for it. It’s catchy and memorable, and “inequality” breeds an immediate emotional response—contempt for the existence of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The moment Donald Trump urged black voters to consider supporting him—asking, “What do you have to lose?”—the consultants and pundits sprang into coordinated action, bombarding… Read More
SocietyCommentary
A guiding principle for physicians is primum non nocere, the Latin expression for “first, do no harm.” In order not to do harm, whether it’s… Read More
EducationCommentary
The prospects for a better future are nearly hopeless for roughly 20 percent of black people—those who reside in big-city, crime-infested, and dysfunctional neighborhoods. There… Read More
EconomyCommentary
We have so many opportunities in the workforce, yet women are often still told that we’ve got to run ourselves ragged and forego balance in… Read More
SocietyFeature
Greensboro, N.C.—Mark Walker spent his childhood in and out of prison. He wasn’t an inmate, but the chaplain’s son at one of Alabama’s minimum-security state… Read More
EconomyCommentary
With Thanksgiving around the corner, charitable food banks across America are gearing up for their busiest donation season. Individuals and local firms supply a lot… Read More
SocietyNews
During his trip to the United States, Pope Francis has chosen to dine with the underprivileged and often overlooked population of Washington, D.C.: the homeless…. Read More
EconomyCommentary
Senior research fellow Robert Rector wrote earlier this week on the Census Bureau’s poverty report: Today, the Census Bureau will release its annual poverty report…. Read More
EconomyCommentary
Today, the Census Bureau will release its annual poverty report. It will almost certainly report that over 40 million Americans “live in poverty.” But what… Read More
SocietyNews
Sandtown-Winchester, a place of boarded-up and broken homes made famous as the neighborhood where Freddie Gray lived, is among the bleakest places in Baltimore. But… Read More
SocietyNews
The feelings expressed during Baltimore’s recent protests—of being trapped in poverty and circumstance—have roots in a first-of-its-kind policy enacted more than 100 years ago. In… Read More
SocietyNews
BALTIMORE—At the end of the most hopeless of weeks, after Freddie Gray’s tragic death in the custody of police led to violent—and peaceful—protests, and the… Read More
EconomyAnalysis
Potential presidential candidates looking to make a splash should consider the following bold proposal to solve our inequality problem once and for all: exile the… Read More
EconomyNews
A new poll shows that Americans don’t believe the economic policies put in place by the government in the wake of the recession have been… Read More
EconomyCommentary
A recent PolitiFact review of a statement by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., suggests that a statement can be factually inaccurate yet “mostly true.” In a… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Monica Potts accuses conservatives of perpetrating a “big, long, 30-year conservative lie.” “It took the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression for many economists,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to tackle income inequality—not just in New York City, but across the country. De Blasio, who was elected on his… Read More
EconomyCommentary
For those in Washington obsessed with reducing income inequality, the standard prescription involves raising taxes on the well-to-do, increasing the minimum wage, and generally expanding… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Thomas Piketty’s best-selling treatise “Capital in the 21st Century” elates liberals because it argues on behalf of soaking the rich with excessive taxation. Mr. Piketty’s… Read More
EconomyAnalysis
Thomas Piketty made some questionable choices in adjusting and presenting the data that underlies his bestselling economics tome, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” Chris Giles,… Read More
EconomyAnalysis
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century is a smash on the Amazon bestsellers list. It is all the rage in Washington and other corridors of… Read More
