Tag: Income Inequality

by Thomas Sowell Since this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the “war on poverty,” we can expect many comments and commemorations of this landmark legislation in the development…

by Thomas Sowell Someone summarized Barack Obama in three words — “educated,” “smart” and “ignorant.” Unfortunately, those same three words would describe all too many of the people who come…

by Michael Barone As Barack Obama scrambles to eviscerate key sections of his own signature health care law, he and other Democrats are trying to shift voters’ focus to another issue…

Obama uses misleading statistics that ignore taxes and transfer payments. Faster economic and job growth is what the poor really need. by Robert E. Grady In his widely noted speech,…

Economic growth benefits all. Obama’s focus on income brackets and disparity doesn’t create more growth, wealth or opportunity. It is merely focuses on redistribution.  If President Obama is to be…

by Gordon S. Jones The huge and growing gap between rich and poor, world-wide, but emphatically in the United States is all the rhetorical rage these days. In a recent…

by Ralph R. Reiland I think the poor need another Reagan in the White House. The income of black heads-of-households dropped by 10.9 percent from June 2009 to June 2013.…