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February 14, 2012 | Subscribe via RSS
“The Obama administration Tuesday embraced an alternative way of defining what it means to be poor, stepping gingerly into a long-running debate over whether to revise the method that has been used to measure poverty for decades.” (Washington Post, Wednesday)
We don’t need a redefinition poverty; we need the removal of government barriers to getting out of it.
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“Scratching By: How Government Creates Poverty as We Know It” by Charles Johnson
Politicians in Alabama and Georgia are cashing in on immigration fears to buy votes, but everyone pays, as Scott Beaulier, Darrick Luke and Daniel Smith explain. Robert Higgs asks if regime uncertainty explains the current malaise. Andrew Morriss marvels at how much better we live than Elvis did. Gary Chartier asks who’s really on the side of the poor and Robert Murphy says the Euro shows how little one can expect from a currency born entirely of government.
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