Health CareCommentary
Minnesota Fraud Exposes the Baked-In Flaws of Welfare
The U.S. welfare system is broken, and the Minnesota scandal is a blaring warning to that reality. The failure of political leaders on many fronts bears some… Read More
EconomyCommentary
From Reagan to Trump: Rethinking Poverty Solutions in America
Ever since Ronald Reagan gave his “A Time for Choosing” speech in 1964, conservative politicians have wandered further and further away from engaging the issue… Read More
EnergyAnalysis
These Poor Countries Are Getting the Miracle Cure From Oil and Gas
Nations once relegated to the margins of economic discourse are now sprinting toward prosperity, their trajectories propelled by a single, unifying force: energy. Energy is… Read More
Economy Analysis
California’s Collapse: How Progressive Policies Are Destroying the Golden State
Once the embodiment of the American dream, California has become a cautionary tale of failed policies and ideological excess, writes Steve Hilton, author of the… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
When Good Intentions Go Wrong: America’s ‘Crisis of Dependency’
About 25 years ago, James Whitford and his wife founded a ministry to the poor and homeless in Missouri. Not long after starting the ministry,… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Efforts by UN, Biden to Eliminate Fossil Fuels Would Leave Billions in Poverty Worldwide
It’s Climate Week at the United Nations in New York, and the U.N. General Assembly on Sunday voted to phase out fossil fuels, at the… Read More
SocietyNews
EXCLUSIVE: Investigation Reveals 2 Arizona Cities Spent Millions on Homelessness With Little Result
Arizona’s two largest cities allocated tens of millions of dollars to fight homelessness in the past several years, but little has changed, according to a… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Why Nonprofits Serving Poor, Homeless Should Stop Taking Government Money
After spending years serving the needs of the poor and homeless through nonprofit ministry, James Whitford says he learned that “it’s good for nonprofits …… Read More
EducationCommentary
Solving the Literacy Crisis
Learning to read is trending. The most fundamental of K-12 subjects is fueling YouTube videos and feature stories in People magazine and is now the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Growing Ignorance of the Benefits of Marriage—and Why It’s Dangerous
A large percentage of Americans don’t know or outright disagree that marriage builds stronger families and is linked to better well-being for children, according to… Read More
WSJ: Food Stamp Rolls Remain High Despite Economic Improvement
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported last week that even with improvements in the economy, food stamp participation rates have reached all-time highs. Since 2008,… Read More
Marriage Goes Down, Poverty Goes Up
An increasing rate of young adults in the United States seems to have cold feet when it comes to marriage. For the first time in… Read More
The Poverty Solution: Marriage or Bust
Last week, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that the U.S. just saw the largest annual increase in poverty recorded in our nation’s… Read More
Increasing Numbers of the Poor: Why Government Anti-Poverty Programs Have Failed
The recent release of the Census report on an upsurge of the number of Americans in poverty will almost surely be used to justify a… Read More
Poverty Explodes, Root Cause Is the Collapse of Marriage
New data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau show the largest increase in poverty in U.S. recorded history. Under President Obama’s watch, an additional… Read More
The Uninsured Numbers Are Bad, but Obamacare Can Make Them Worse
The Census Bureau’s annual snapshot out today shows there were 50.7 million, or 16.7 percent of the population, without health coverage in 2009. These numbers… Read More
