Poverty

Jim Crow 2.0: How the Minimum Wage Became the Democrat Party’s Favorite Racist law of the Left.

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Let me open with the sentence that is going to make several people very uncomfortable before I have even finished my coffee.
The minimum wage is a Jim Crow law. Not “Jim Crow adjacent.” Not “has some racist history if you squint.” An actual, documented, still-functioning mechanism for locking people out of the labor market and into government dependency — built by the same coalition, defended by the same party, and producing the same outcome it was engineered to produce a century ago.

Black Lives Matter, Just Not to Democrat Politicians (Part III, War on Poverty and Welfare State)

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(AP Photo) In 1960, 22 percent of black children were in single-parent households. In 1985, 67 were in that condition. By 2015, the number had grown to 77 percent. What happened? Simple. President Lyndon Bains Johnson and his self-styled, “Unconditional War On Poverty.” In 1964, while delivering his annual State of the Union Address to …

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Critical Thinking and Policy: The Wars on Drugs and Poverty

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Critical Thinking and Policy: The Wars on Drugs and Poverty In an effective government, the first rule of policy is to set goals and the implementing processes to accomplish them. Politicians and the bureaucracy, however, run the government. The first rule of politicians is to get re-elected. The first rule of bureaucrats is to perpetuate …

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