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Conservatives Have the Right Answers on Poverty
From the fiscal to the familial, conservatives have the right answers, says Kevin D. Williamson:The conservative hesitancy to put the issue of poverty at the center of our domestic economic agenda,...
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Seattle’s Foolish Experiment Will Be a Lesson for America
When I was growing up I had a buddy—let’s call him “Bob”—who was constantly asking, “What happens if we do . . . ?” Bob’s curiosity, however, only led him to wonder about foolish actions. He never...
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Why Does No One Believe Extreme Poverty Has Declined?
Would you say that over the past three decades (since about the mid-1980s) the percentage of people in the world who live in extreme poverty — defined as living on less than $1.25 per day — has:Read...
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What Christians Should Know About Unemployment
Note: This is the latest entry in the Acton blog series, “What Christians Should Know About Economics.” For other entries in the series see this post. The Term: UnemploymentWhat it Means: If you...
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Unemployment is a Spiritual Problem
The longer that Americans are unemployed, the more likely they are to report signs of poor psychological well-being. A recent Gallup survey found that about one in five Americans who have been...
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What Matters Most for Social Mobility?
Earlier this year I wrote a series of posts explaining 12 principles that generally drive the thinking of conservative evangelicals when it comes to economics. Number 9 on my list was:Read more on What...
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Christianity, Socialism, and Wealth Creation
Christian churches in the West have been focused on redistribution of income rather than the creation of wealth, says Brian Griffiths in this week’s Acton Commentary.Through much of the post-war period...
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The Connection Between Inequality and Poverty Alleviation
“If there is one thing that religious leaders around the world seem to agree on today,” says Acton research associate Dylan Pahman, “it is the evils of income inequality stemming from a globalized...
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Why a Basic Guaranteed Income Wouldn’t Work
For decades conservatives and libertarians have pondered ways to replace the defective American welfare state. One of the boldest and most controversial ideas is to simply give everyone a basic...
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Great Britain is Poorer Than Every US State
At the height of power, circa 1922, the British Empire was the largest empire in history, covering one-fifth of the world’s population and almost a quarter of the earth’s total land area. Yet almost...
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Which Inequality? Trends Toward Equality in Lifespans and Education
Earlier this month, I wrote a two part article for the Library of Law & Liberty, critiquing the uncritical condemnation of income inequality by world religious leaders.In part 1, I pointed out that...
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Explaining Social Mobility Using Legos
“Can you explain that important economic concept using Legos?”Apparently, someone must have said that to Richard Reeves, an economist at the Brookings Institution economist, because he’s made a brief...
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There’s More to the Story About the 90-Year-Old Charged With Feeding the...
Cities across America – from Pensacola, Florida to Honolulu, Hawaii — have increasingly taken strong measures to discourage the homeless from making a home within their city limits. So it didn’t seem...
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I’m a Giant in Japan. Or, Why Income Inequality is Irrelevant
For most of my life I was, at 5-foot-10, of exactly average height. But in the span of one day in 1989 I became freakishly tall.While I hadn’t grown an inch upward, I had moved 6,000 miles eastward to...
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Unemployment as Economic-Spiritual Indicator — November 2014 Report
Series Note: Jobs are one of the most important aspects of a morally functioning economy. They help us serve the needs of our neighbors and lead to human flourishing both for the individual and for...
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Is Christian Worldview Worth a Premium?
In an interview on Christian distance education, Dylan Pahman, the assistant editor for Acton’s Journal of Markets & Morality, talks about the education bubble, rising costs of higher education,...
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Unemployment as Economic-Spiritual Indicator — December 2014 Report
Series Note: Jobs are one of the most important aspects of a morally functioning economy. They help us serve the needs of our neighbors and lead to human flourishing both for the individual and for...
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Redistribution and the State of the Union
Today at Think Christian I reflect on President Obama’s State of the Union message last night. I think it was perhaps the best speech I have heard him give in terms of delivery and general tone. There...
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3 Disturbing Facts About the Social Mobility of Black Americans
One of the most important important socio-economic factors in America is also one of the least talked about: social mobility.Social mobility is the ability of an individual or family to improve (or...
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Do Half of All Public School Children Live in Poverty?
Back in October I offered five guidelines on “how to be a better guesstimater,” ways to hone your skills at guessing and estimation — guesstimation — that will help us minimize innumeracy.Read more on...
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