Tag: poverty
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Liberals and ‘libertarian populists’ are wrong: politics isn’t a zero-sum fight between corporations and the poor – Ezra Klein
Washington Post: Liberals and ‘libertarian populists’ are wrong: politics isn’t a zero-sum fight between corporations and the poor – Ezra Klein …Positing this zero-sum death struggle between corporate America and poorer Americans is the key to the emergent arguments around “libertarian populism.” The basic idea there is that if Washington would simply close its doors…
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Saturday Links
1. Phillip Swagel with a good piece on Inequality and Opportunity … I am not convinced, however, that the president's proposals are well matched to the problem he describes. Indeed, Mr. Obama is better at describing the outcomes he seeks than at putting forward a coherent set of policies to reach those outcomes. But I…
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Are We Talking About Inequality or Poverty?
Clive Crook wrote an interesting piece: All This Inequality Talk Does Nothing for the Poor – Bloomberg … Inequality is rising, and that's a bad thing. What's worse is that the issue is getting mixed up with what should be a more pressing debate over economic opportunity, which would be better kept separate. This is…
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Is Fair Trade Coffee Curing Poverty?
Acton Institute PowerBlog: Is Fair Trade Coffee Curing Poverty? Sarah Stanley does a great job summarizing Victor Claar's take on Fair Trade Coffee: “Who could be against fairness?” Victor Claar asked this question at Acton University last month. He and Travis Hester gave a talk titled, “Fair Trade Versus Free Trade” with their focus on…
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The Shift from ‘Alleviating Poverty’ to ‘Creating Prosperity’
Q Ideas for the Common Good: The Shift from 'Alleviating Poverty' to 'Creating Prosperity' "We see poverty in the developing world and we ask—what can I do? So we send food, water, clothes. We sponsor children, build wells, start schools and go on mission trips; we wear wristbands, we sign petitions, we advocate. But what…