Adam Vass Gal works in financial services. He has also taught economics at Belmont University since 2003. Adam holds a BBA in economics and MS in finance, both from Mississippi State University.
When writing on poverty issues, many commentators emphasize the importance of work and wages, but many cultural factors, including views of family size and child rearing, can have immense effects on generational poverty as well.
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.