If you gave everyone in the country free health care and free housing, it wouldn’t change the measured poverty rate at all. That's a fundamental flaw.
If we want to combat the remaining problems of chronic poverty successfully, we have to recognize what has already occurred, thanks both to economic growth and to past reforms.
A recent debate in Guilford County raises questions about government funding decisions.
About 31 percent of American households were in poverty by this measure in 1962. By 2010, that rate had dropped to 5 percent.
Regardless of this year's vote in the N.C. General Assembly, the federal health care reform law is forcing the state to expand some elements of a broken program.
Poverty isn’t a disease you catch or the product of exploitation by the capitalist class. It is strongly associated with a failure to build human capital.
Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute has persuaded me that the federal government isn’t spending enough.
The Raleigh News & Observer embarrassed itself on Tuesday with a ludicrous story claiming that half of North Carolina’s schoolchildren live below the poverty line.
How does a minimum wage rate of $10.50 per hour sound? Personally, I'd like to see it hiked to about $250.00 per hour, but if productivity counts, I may fall just short of that mark, so I'll probably have to forget it for now.The $10.50 per hour wage is the benchmark for what advocates in some cities are calling a "living wage."
There is no contradiction between these two statements: a new poverty report underlines North Carolina’s lagging economic performance, and the new report exaggerates American poverty.
Sen. Elizabeth Dole and others in Washington want to increase the number of children eligible for free school lunches. Here's the heartless reason not to do it.
