poverty
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentPoliticsRegulation
Maximum Facts About the Minimum Wage
by James Agresti March 9, 2021The estimated tradeoffs for this meager increase in income is the destruction of 1.4 million jobs, a slight decline in the overall economy, increased inflation, more government debt, and greater burdens on taxpayers.
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ConstitutionEconomicsEnvironment/EnergyGovernmentPolitics
Government Disproportionately Harms Poorer Americans More
by Seton Motley November 30, 2020Shocker: Life is usually harder when you have less money
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Budgets/TaxesGovernment
Widespread Poverty Stats Greatly Overstate the Number of Americans Who Are Destitute
by James Agresti January 27, 2020Contrary to AOC, the facts are clear that frequently reported federal poverty stats vastly overstate the number of Americans who are destitute.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
COP 25: Climate Alarmists Wage a War of Words, but Where’s the Beef?
by Ronald Stein December 12, 2019Looking back, the climate alarmist’s movement started with Al Gore’s 2007 movie when he proclaimed the eminent extinction of the polar bears due to global warming.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Climate Change Be Damned, Humans Are Flourishing
by H. Sterling Burnett August 4, 2018Writing in Singularity Hub, Raya Bidshahri, founder of Aweacademy, draws data from Steven Pinker’s newest book, Enlightenment Now, to demonstrate human progress proceeds apace, and human flourishing, as measured by health, lifespans, peace, prosperity, and safety, is increasing. And all this even as climate changes.
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Economics
Reasons for Anti-Capitalism: Ignorance, Arrogance, and Envy
by Richard Ebeling April 6, 2018Why is the free enterprise or capitalist economic system so widely disliked, hated and opposed?
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Education
School Choice Can Help Defeat Poverty—But Only If Government Gets Out of the Way
by Teresa Mull February 23, 2018In January, 6.7 million people are gathering to celebrate and demand more school choice at some 30,000 events and rallies nationwide, yet government schools continue to usurp the role of parents at an alarming pace.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedLibertyPolitics
Capitalism and the Free Society, Part 2
by Richard Ebeling November 13, 2017The free enterprise, or capitalist, system has done more to improve the material condition of humanity than any other economic arrangement of human cooperation in all of recorded history.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Sustainability Policies Aren’t All that Sustainable
by H. Sterling Burnett April 4, 2017Among the most powerful panels at The Heartland Institute’s 12th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-12) was the session on sustainability, in which the speakers universally condemned the concept as it is being used to restrict fossil fuel use and carbon emissions to prevent purported global warming and supposed resource depletion.
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EconomicsFeatured
Entrepreneurship, the Market Economy and Human Betterment
by Richard Ebeling October 31, 2016Through almost all mankind’s history, the human condition was one of abject poverty and hardship.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Peter Ferrara Discusses the Worst Recovery Since the Great Depression
by Donald Kendal August 18, 2016Heartland Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara joins the Made In America radio show with host Neal Asbury to talk about a new Heartland policy brief titled “Why the United States Has Suffered the Worst Economic Recovery Since the Great Depression.”
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Several years ago, physician, statistician, sword swallower and vibrant lecturer Hans Rosling produced a fascinating 4-minute video that presented 120,000 data points and showcased how mostly western nations became healthy and prosperous in just 200 years – after countless millennia of malnutrition, disease, wretched poverty and early death.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Earth Day’s Anti-Fossil Fuel Focus Could Plunge Millions Into Green Energy Poverty
by Marita Noon April 19, 2016Friday, April 22, will mark the 47th Earth Day. You may think it is all about planting trees and cleaning up neighborhoods. But this year’s anniversary will be closer to its radical roots than, perhaps, any other since its founding in 1970. Considered the birth of the environmental movement, the first Earth Day took place during the height of America’s counterculture era. According to EarthDay.org, it gave voice to an “emerging consciousness, channeling the energy of the anti-war protest movement and putting environmental concerns on the front page.”