Mitt Romney's Family Plan Isn't Great, but It May Be Better Than the Alternatives
Whether the federal government should be subsidizing families at all is another matter.
Whether the federal government should be subsidizing families at all is another matter.
Piling on sanctions and blocking other countries' reconstruction efforts will only punish the Syrian people.
Lockdowns, trade disputes, and warfare make the next meal once again a matter of concern.
Mourn the end of a too-brief interlude of relative peace and prosperity.
In time, demand for poop and ash may offset the fertilizer crunch.
The government has learned nothing about affordable housing in the 50 years since Pruitt-Igoe came toppling down.
Both Republicans and Democrats want to address poverty with big government.
It sucked for avoidable reasons.
Are normal Americans worried about inflation? Jeong says nope, it's a ginned-up outrage because rich people's "parasitic assets aren’t doing as well as they’d like."
The dog died after the man went to jail for exercising his First Amendment rights.
Since lacking licenses can lead to lacking the ability to work (and pay fines), offenses like parking tickets or failing to come to a complete halt at stop signs can upend lives unjustly.
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The technique "could potentially help address problems of poverty and food insecurity at a global scale."
A North Carolina city council member wants to make feeding homeless people a misdemeanor.
And the global upper-middle class doubled.
Why the Golden State is losing people, business, and a congressional seat
Americans have a reputation for being cockeyed optimists, but we're suckers when it comes to "declension narratives" about the fallen state of our world.
Conservatives would no doubt use government differently than liberals, but libertarians have good reason to doubt that the results will be better.
Free people and free markets reduced poverty in the past and are capable of doing so again.
The right and the left are ready to send fiscal conservatism off the rails.
How politicians used the drug war and the welfare state to break up black and Native American families
The tradeoffs among considerations of health, prosperity, and liberty are catching up with us even if we don't want to acknowledge them.
Amity Shlaes concludes in her new book that grand governmental schemes to broadly reorder society are doomed to fail.
Historian Amity Shlaes on the good intentions and bad results of LBJ's war on poverty
Should we be worried about the wealth amassed by the so-called 1 percent?
Peace on earth and good will toward men?
"There has to be a war on poverty," says Michael Bloomberg. Does he know how the last one turned out?
Philanthropy helps others. Government controls them instead.
U.S. life expectancy peaked in 2014.
Entrepreneur Magatte Wade explains how regulations are keeping Africa poor.
Governing puts together a database of cities and towns addicted to money from fines and forfeitures.
People acting in their own self-interest created modern prosperity, says Ayn Rand Institute's Yaron Brook.
People charged—but not convicted—of crimes often have to wait weeks to see a judge if they’re too poor to pay for their freedom.
The number of people deemed to be living in extreme poverty was significantly inflated
New research shows that income surveys erroneously categorized some households as extremely poor actually had "net worth in the millions" of dollars.
A study shows that when these fees hit low-income offenders, they wreck their lives—and also don't even get paid.
All the welfare programs California Democrats can dream up won't do as much as some commonsense reforms to let people who want to work, work.
Progressive populists have decided making a lot of money is prima facie evidence of criminality and that inequality is the cardinal sin of our age. Nope.
An anti-market ideologue tortures the data at The Guardian.
Data from North Carolina, Florida, and Arizona show how school choice programs take care of students who would otherwise be neglected.
Michael Shermer, Ron Bailey, and Jim Epstein talk poverty-eradication, genomics, and blockchain at Reason's 50th anniversary celebration
Taxpayers shell out big time to keep poor folks who haven't even been convicted of crimes behind bars.
Capitalism not only helps reduce poverty, but can bring services to more diverse groups of people.
The state can no longer suspend poor people's driver's licenses over unpaid traffic tickets, Judge Aleta Trauger ruled.
Watch two leading development economists debate at the Soho Forum.
In many cases the sentence for missing a payment is harsher than the original conviction.
If you read Reason you already know these three pieces of good news about global trends.