Tag Archives: Job Training

Senator Mike Lee: Bring Them in

Source:The New Democrat  Poverty in America is the thing that we should be talking about right now for a couple reasons. One and the most important one I believe, 1/5 Americans live in poverty. We have the highest poverty rate … Continue reading

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The Democratic Strategist: Robert Creamer: How to Fight Economic Inequality

Source:The New Democrat  Perhaps someone should explain to me how someone with a good education, who works hard and is very productive and makes a lot of money for the work they do and what they produce, how that is … Continue reading

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Liberty Pen: Video: Milton Friedman: Poverty and Equality

Liberty Pen: Video: Milton Friedman: Poverty and Equality The fact is, if you live in poverty, you don’t live in freedom, but you live in poverty. If you don’t have the freedom to live your own life and are dependent … Continue reading

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Liberty Pen: Walter E. Williams & Ron Walters Debate Affirmative Action (1988)

Source:FreeState Now The problem with affirmative action in a country that’s supposed to be a liberal democracy like America, that claims to be color-blind and that all people are created equally under law, is that affirmative action simply contradicts those … Continue reading

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The New York Times: Can Diversity Survive Without Affirmative Action?

Source:Free State MD You only achieve a colorblind, or racial-blind, which is what this is really about, or ethnic-blind, or gender-blind society, if you actually practice those things. And simply say dammit, (or use your own word) we are simply … Continue reading

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Foreign Affairs: Opinion- Jal Mehta- Why American Education Fails

Source: This piece was originally posted at FRS FreeState Plus For the United States to succeed long-term and for us to ever get our poverty rate down to at least a more competitive level with our developed competitors, instead of twice … Continue reading

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Russia Today: Thom Hartmann: ‘How Big Should Government Be?’

Source:Free State MD In this editorial, Thom Hartmann said that government should be big enough to insure that all Americans have access to quality affordable health care. And I guess that means health insurance as well and education. Does that … Continue reading

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Cato Institute: Doug Bandow: America on Welfare

Source:FreeState Now If we were really serious about reducing poverty and government dependence as it relates to the economy, people would be making more money working than not working. And people who are not retired, or physically or mentally disabled, … Continue reading

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Brookings Institution: Ron Haskins: America’s Welfare Transformation

Source:FreeState Now In 1996, a Republican Congress and President Bill Clinton made Welfare to Work the law of the country. Requiring people who are collecting Welfare Insurance to prepare themselves to go to work, go to school, go back to … Continue reading

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Democracy Now: Amy Goodman Interviews Tavis Smiley & Cornell West: The Rich & The Rest of Us

. Source:The FreeState Tavis Smiley who personally I like, but generally don’t agree with, but who’s someone who I respect, hosted a panel discussion that C-Span, thank God for C-Span, broadcasted on MLK Day on Monday. If you guessed Tavis … Continue reading

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