SocietyCommentary
How Poor, Really, Are America’s Poor?
Editor’s note: This commentary was written and published before the coronavirus pandemic began to disrupt life and work in America and around the world. The… Read More
SocietyCommentary
We Hear You: From Misery in San Francisco to Impeachment in Senate
Editor’s note: This week’s dip into the mailbag isn’t impeachment free, but does show that much more is on the minds of The Daily Signal’s… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Truth About the New Food Stamp Work Requirements’ Effects
The Trump administration on Wednesday released a final rule strengthening work requirements in the food stamp program. Predictably, it set off alarms on the left…. Read More
SocietyNews
Lawmakers Map Out Conservative Solutions to End Poverty
Instilling a sense of expectancy, personal capability, and American exceptionalism are keys to lifting individuals out of poverty, two conservative lawmakers said Thursday at a… Read More
SocietyNews
Jay-Z’s Un-PC Remarks on Broken Homes, Crime Belatedly Trigger Tweetstorm
Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z is drawing belated condemnation on Twitter for attributing “adverse feeling for authority” to fatherless households during a panel discussion on social justice… Read More
SocietyNews
Over 6 Million Americans Drop Off Food Stamps Under Trump Presidency
Roughly 6.3 million Americans have dropped off food stamps since President Donald Trump’s first month in office. Data from the Agriculture Department shows 6,268,285 individuals have… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Cuccinelli Schools Media on Immigration, Welfare, and Freedom
The left-wing media are having a field day distorting acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli’s comments regarding the famous poem emblazoned on… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Is Trump Right About Baltimore? Let’s Look at Some Facts.
Here’s what President Donald Trump tweeted about a Baltimore congressman and his city: “Rep. Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at… Read More
SocietyCommentary
A Plan to Fix Baltimore
Former South Carolina governor and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has urged President Donald Trump and Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., to stop exchanging insults over conditions… Read More
SocietyCommentary
I Know From Experience This Urban Agenda Would Lift Baltimore and Other Cities
You may not like the messenger, but embedded in the recent political dust-up about the crime, poverty, and despair in Baltimore were some undeniable truths…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
Why Welfare Hasn’t Cured Poverty
When President Lyndon Johnson launched his War on Poverty in the 1960s, he pledged to eliminate poverty in America. More than five decades, several welfare… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Forget Reparations. Money Won’t Solve Black Community’s Problems.
Several Democratic presidential hopefuls are calling for Americans to make reparations for slavery. On June 19, the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights,… Read More
SocietyNews
‘I Don’t See It Happening,’ Says Trump on Reparations
After a spirited hearing on whether the U.S. should explore the idea of reparations for the descendants of slaves, President Donald Trump says he does… Read More
SocietyNews
After Legally Receiving Food Stamps, This Millionaire Is Trying to Change the System
Rob Undersander, a retired engineer in Waite Park, Minnesota, wasn’t eager to go public about being a millionaire, but he wanted to expose a loophole… Read More
SocietyCommentary
National School Lunch Program Has Morphed Into Massive, Wasteful Entitlement Program
The National School Lunch Program has changed dramatically since it began in 1946. What started as a grant program to help poor students and those… Read More
SocietyNews
‘Self-Sufficiency, Not a Sinkhole’: JOBS Act Updates Work Requirements for Welfare Recipients
Republicans in the House and Senate are making another legislative push to enforce work requirements for able-bodied adults on welfare. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and… Read More
SocietyCommentary
What Liberals Forget: Before the Welfare State, Americans Took Care of Each Other
Over the weekend, Democratic fresh face and socialist darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., spoke at the South by Southwest conference. While sitting amidst the enormous… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Trump’s Budget Reaffirms Commitment to Work-Based Welfare Policy
President Donald Trump issued an executive order last April that called for policy reforms to, among other things, “improve employment outcomes and economic independence.” Nearly… Read More
SocietyCommentary
How America’s Wealthy Often Become the Biggest Welfare Recipients
When I hear “welfare payments,” I think “poor people.” But America’s biggest welfare recipients are often politically connected corporations—like America’s sugar producers. The industry gets… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In America Today, We Plunder and Call It Good
Frederic Bastiat, a French economist and member of the French National Assembly, lived from 1801 to 1850. He had great admiration for our country, except… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Trump’s Agenda Is a Winning Formula for Black America
My fellow Americans. Given that the Democratic Party chose to select a recently defeated political candidate to give a response to the president’s State of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
San Francisco’s Liberal Policies Have Made It a Slum
San Francisco is one of the richest cities it the world. It’s given us music, technology, and elegant architecture. Now it gives us filthy homeless… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Worst Enemy of Black People
Malcolm X was a Muslim minister and human rights activist. Born in 1925, he met his death at the hands of an assassin in 1965…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
Here Are 2 Ways Trump Can Help Americans Move From Food Stamps to Work
President Donald Trump has an opportunity to do what Congress should be doing, but isn’t: Help Americans who are on food stamps transition to work…. Read More
EconomyCommentary
Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried Before. It Didn’t Work.
Those calling for a government-funded universal basic income are acting as though it’s a hot new idea. It’s not. It’s been tried before—and it didn’t work…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
New Statistics Show Decline in Poverty in Trump’s First Year
The federal government’s official poverty figures for 2017, the first year of the Trump administration, were released Wednesday, showing an improvement over those of its… Read More
SocietyNews
Meet the Conservative Alternative to the AARP
The 60 Plus Association was created more than 25 years ago as an alternative to the AARP for American seniors. Earlier this year, longtime conservative… Read More
SocietyCommentary
California Shows Why Congress Needs to Eliminate Food Stamp Work Requirement Loophole
Despite a booming economy and a record-low unemployment rate nationally, at least one state has been working overtime to ensure its work-capable food stamp recipients… Read More
EconomyNews
Fact Check: Trump Says 3.5 Million People Have Been Lifted off Food Stamps
President Donald Trump said in remarks at the White House recently that 3.5 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps. Verdict: True The number… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Sorry If You’re Offended, but Socialism Leads to Misery and Destitution
On the same day that Venezuela’s “democratically” elected socialist president, Nicolas Maduro, whose once-wealthy nation now has citizens foraging for food, announced he was lopping… Read More
