Poverty, Welfare Archives — News From London, Ontario, And Beyond

The Welfare State Did What Slavery Couldn’t Do

September 9, 2020 – Wendy McElroy …… Thomas Sowell concluded that “A vastly expanded welfare state in the 1960s destroyed the black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and generations of racial oppression.” Continue reading →

COVID Crisis Could Push 100 Million People into Extreme Poverty, New World Bank Study Says

July 1, 2020 – Jon Miltimore …… The surge in extreme global poverty would be the first increase since 1998. Continue reading →

Pope Francis Owes It to the Poor to Be More Informed about Markets

January 28, 2020 – Antony Davies, James R. Harrigan …… For the sake of the poor, it’s time for Pope Francis to get a better understanding of basic economics. Continue reading →

Entitlement Liabilities Are a Graver Threat to the Next Generation of Americans Than Climate Change

January 23, 2020 – John Phelan …… We are on the brink of inter-generational strife. We have the political shortsightedness of decades past to thank for that. Continue reading →

The Myth That People Work Harder Under Capitalism

December 29, 2019 – Barry Brownstein …… Capitalism has been the great engine of unimagined prosperity and unimagined improvements in worker conditions. Continue reading →

Why We Should (Freely) Give to the Poor this Christmas Season

December 22, 2019 – Lawrence W. Reed …… True compassion is helping others out of a genuine sense of caring and brotherhood. It is not asking your legislator or congressman to do it for you. Continue reading →

Why a “Billionaire” Wealth Tax Would Hurt the Working Poor and the Middle Class

December 18, 2019 – Mark Hornshaw …… Although the wealth tax was drafted with the poor in mind, its passing could cause them more harm than benefit. Continue reading →

Bernie Sanders’s Upside-Down Concept of “Morality”

September 10, 2019 – Bradley Thomas …… Sanders’s and other progressives’ blustering about “morality” is really a smokescreen designed to distract from their vision of a society organized around the threat of government aggression against innocents who simply want to mind their own business. Continue reading →

The Welfare State is Tearing Sweden Apart

June 4, 2019 – Jon Nylander …… The welfare state is a key ingredient in sowing social mistrust and discord among diverse groups in Sweden. Continue reading →

Student Debt Cancellation: Charity or Force?

May 30, 2019 – Jacob Hornberger …… There is a fundamental difference between voluntary charity and mandatory “charity.” Continue reading →