[T]here's no more reason to believe that arbitrarily raising the minimum wage will elevate the poor to economic security than throwing them off of a building will teach them to fly.
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Burying the Living Wage Myth
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Neo-Feudalism: Poverty in America
Who's to blame for free men and women condemned to a waking nightmare of fear and death, where kill or be killed are their two best economic choices in one of the wealthiest nations on the planet?
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5 Points Proving the Left Doesn’t Understand Simple Economics
Here are 5 major Leftist policy points that prove the Left has absolutely no idea how economies actually work.
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Promises Promises Promises
We need a cultural shift, away from empty rhetoric, recrimination, and blame and toward based principles, political reconciliation, and market tested solutions.
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A Short Word: Sitting for Freedom
To compel others to violate their conscience simply because it is "nationalist" carries the poisonous stink of Mao's Communist Party loyalty patrols.
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A Short Word: There is a Bright Side
This is what the Founding Fathers understood so clearly, but Americans have forgotten: America is about giving people control of their own destinies.
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The Cold Shower
As long as what American workers are paid is not in line with what they produce, then natural market forces are going to continue to force good manufacturing and textile jobs out of the United States, cutting off American workers from the good jobs that are necessary to allow unskilled and uneducated individuals to penetrate the middle class.
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Economics Speed Round: January 2016
This is how 2015 really ended: not with a bang, but with a whimper, and an egregious amount of spinning.
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire.
The left has spent half a century fighting the smoke, not the fire, which is why their policies continue to fail to effectively reduce the persistent generational poverty in cities across the United States.
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Looking Back. Looking Forward.
Happy New Year.
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Christmas: The Season is the Reason
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The Economy: Crash Cart Politics
Excuses won't improve the economy but frankly neither will political rhetoric. Like a medical drama, the disease isn't what's killing the patient, it's the treatment.
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Embracing The Market Prosperity Model
America is losing ground, losing opportunity, and losing prosperity, and that's simply not what America is about.
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The Jobs Problem: Life on the Margins
The sad reality is that poverty is not as complex as the left seems to want to make it out to be, and the solutions to the poverty problem don't actually need to be complex or even expansive.