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Federal Judge Strikes Down Utah’s Hairbraiding Licensing Scheme
Salt Lake City, Utah—In a major victory for economic liberty, a federal court ruled late yesterday that Utah’s requirement that hairbraiders have a government-issued cosmetology license is...
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How the 2012 GOP Platform Tackles Criminal Justice
August 31, 2012 By Vikrant P. Reddy This week, during its quadrennial national convention, the Republican Party released its 2012 platform. The platform is yet another indicator of how conservative...
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POVERTY ON THE RISE IN DC
From DC Fiscal Policy Institute: One-in-five DC residents—approximately 123,000–live in poverty, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released today. The Census also found that poverty has grown...
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Chris Ladd: The Purpose of the Social Safety Net
When my father was young, my grandfather was seriously injured in a ranch accident. He was unable to work for an extended time and was never able to return to his previous job. While he struggled to...
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Akindele Akinyemi: Black Americans Are At Fault For Not Reducing Black...
Recently, it was reported that in August the Black unemployment rate in the United States is 16.7%,its highest level since 1984, while the unemployment rate for Whites fell slightly to 8%. The...
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Philadelphia: No Love for the Homeless
“Philadelphia: No Love for the Homeless” is the latest video from Reason TV. Last March, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter outlawed serving meals to the homeless in city parks, citing health concerns...
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The White Ghetto
‘The White Ghetto‘: In Appalachia the country is beautiful and the society is broken. Owsley County, Ky. – There are lots of diversions in the Big White Ghetto, the vast moribund matrix of Wonder...
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What Rubio Did and Did Not Say about Poverty
To be sure, there are numerous things that Marco Rubio’s anti-poverty speech this week failed to do: the list of omissions run from insisting on budget neutrality for his proposals without giving any...
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Blaming the Poor Feels Great
And the disciples asked Jesus, “Who sinned, this man or his parents that he was born blind?” Being confronted with the suffering of others triggers discomfort in almost any healthy person. That...
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Why poverty matters for Republicans
Twenty trillion dollars is a lot of money. Absent a major course-correction or a sudden increase in economic growth, the US Federal debt will reach that level by 2017. Americans would consistently...
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Sean Jacobs: How Minorities Succeed
Some groups prosper, others don’t. But to blame capitalism, inequality or exploitation misses the mark. Having worked as a young professional in the South Pacific I’ve often been impressed at the...
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The Liberty to Feed the Poor
On the night she was ticketed, Chef Joan Cheever’s menu included fresh vegetable soup, lamb meatballs over wheat pasta, braised Southern greens, and a salad with roasted beets. She plans to appear...
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