Poverty

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Lipton Matthews

While the standard secular narrative is that Christianity held back science and human development, history tells a different story, one of literacy and the development of human capital.

Jeffery L. Degner

Janet Yellen, who once was the nation's chief inflationist, now says that poor women need easy access to abortion because inflation might work a hardship on them.

Henry Hazlitt

Antipoverty "strategies" like mandatory overtime pay, state-protected unionization, and opposition to labor-saving devices only serve to increase the cost of living for poor and rich alike.

Lipton Matthews

Why did Barbados postslavery develop a more robust economy than Jamaica even though the people had similar ethnic backgrounds?

Ayush Poolovadoo

Critics of free markets claim that capitalism causes poverty. After economic restrictions against India's Dalits caste were lifted, many Dalits were able to secure a better life and rise from poverty.

Antony Sammeroff

People must still compete for resources in a socialist economy. In fact, the competition is intense. On the other hand, thanks to markets, basic necessities—and even basic luxuries—are now more more accessible than ever. 

Eben Macdonald

The empirical evidence shows that neither minimum wages or welfare reduce poverty. In fact, minimum wages tend to increase the cost of living while poverty rates have gone nowhere since the Great Society was introduced.