by Andrew F. Quinlan | Oct 3, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
The latest video from our Economics 101 Series tackles poverty, an issue frequently used to pull heart-strings in support of big government policies. But as the video shows, big government redistribution schemes are not making the problem better, and are likely making...
by CF&P | Oct 3, 2011 | News, Press Releases
Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation For Immediate Release Monday, October 3, 2011 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org New “Economics 101” Video from CF&P Exposes Failure of the War on Poverty, Calls for Free Markets for Upward Mobility (Washington,...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 16, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities is a left-wing group in Washington that advocates for bigger government and higher taxes. In an effort to promote more redistribution, they recently put together a map showing how welfare benefits varied by state. We’re...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 13, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements
The Census Bureau has just released the 2010 poverty numbers, and the new data is terrible. There are now a record number of poor people in America, and the poverty rate has jumped to 15.1 percent. But I don’t really blame President Obama for these grim numbers. Yes,...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 21, 2011 | Blogs, Economics
I took part in a thirty-minute online Skype debate for PBS on income inequality, and they boiled it down to the 4:44 youtube video embedded below. You probably won’t be surprised to learn that I said economic growth was the key. I don’t want to re-slice the pie. I...
