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War on Poverty

Culture

Beyond the Welfare State

October 16, 2025 | Nathan Mayo
Cartoon cardboard box on a conveyer belt with a label saying "Myth #7 Taxing the Rich is Socialism"
Economics

Responding to Reich, Part 7: Is Taxing the Rich Really ‘Socialism’?

December 18, 2024 | Patrick Carroll
Economics

Has Capitalism Come at the Expense of the Poor?

August 16, 2024 | Saul Zimet
Politics

Forget Junk Food Restrictions. It’s Time to Scrap Food Stamps Altogether

February 24, 2023 | Patrick Carroll
Economics

How Does Government Welfare Stack Up Against Private Charity? It’s No Contest.

December 4, 2021 | Joel Lim
Politics

The NYT Just Compared Biden’s Spending Bill to LBJ’s ‘War on Poverty.’ There’s Just One Problem: That War Failed

October 29, 2021 | Hannah Cox
Economics

What Ayanna Pressley Doesn’t Understand About Poverty

February 28, 2021 | Brad Polumbo
Economics

Why It’s So Hard to Escape America’s Anti-Poverty Programs

March 30, 2020 | Justin Murray
Economics

No, Millions of Americans Are Not Living on Less Than $2 a Day

August 1, 2019 | Joe Carter
Economics

Why the Minimum Wage Can’t Solve the Poverty Problem

July 5, 2019 | Paul Boyce
Economics

What the War on Poverty and the Vietnam War Had in Common

May 29, 2019 | Silvio Simonetti
Economics

Study: The Poverty Rate in Canada Is 0.9% for People Who Do These Three Things

March 30, 2019 | Rev. Ben Johnson
Economics

Why Child Poverty Plunged in the US over the Last Two Decades

March 6, 2019 | Robert Doar
Economics

The Green New Deal Would Be Even Worse Than Past Anti-Poverty Efforts

February 28, 2019 | Brad Polumbo
Economics

Everyday People Are Reducing Poverty—Not Big Government

February 27, 2019 | Jake Grant
Economics

What the Neo-Socialists in Congress Don’t Understand about Poverty

December 11, 2018 | Xavier Underwood
Economics

Have Antipoverty Programs Increased Poverty?

October 22, 2018 | Gary M. Galles
Economics

This Presbyterian Night Shelter Is Waging a War on Poverty that Is Actually Working

September 10, 2018 | Benjamin R. Dierker
Economics

California Has the Highest Poverty Rate in America. Why?

January 21, 2018 | Jon Miltimore
Economics

Technology is Helping the Homeless Get Out of Poverty

December 4, 2017 | Heidi Hecht
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