Here's a scary piece from The Heritage Foundation: A fifth of Americans are now on some form of federal government support. The initial impulse is ...
Poverty: Articles
Throughout the past several years of recession, many young people have hidden in academia, earning degrees while their student debt rises, hoping to wait out ...
Kevin De Young, pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, MI wrote an interesting piece that appears on The Aquila Report (click ...
Apr
27
2012
Our Entitlement Addiction
By Trevor Thomas | Posted in CJS Forum, Featured Post | Apr-27-2012
Never has there been a clearer manifestation of the absurdity that our entitlement culture has wrought than what occurred recently in the state of Michigan—not ...
Liz Weston at MSN Money shares interesting thoughts on what the poor have to teach the rich. In particular, one important note is how much ...
Mar
20
2012
Why You Don’t Want Government Handling Charity
By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Mar-20-2012
Here's a depressing story from CBS - New York City is turning away many food donations to its city homeless shelters (click here ...
In this Christmas season, as we celebrate the Greatest Gift the world has ever known, I thought it appropriate to address the issue of giving—especially ...
Christine Rousselle from The College Conservative shares some interesting experiences from her summer work at Walmart. What she found was not pretty (click here ...
That title may be a bit misleading, but there has been a significant shift in poverty demographics. The past decade has brought a big jump ...
The modern question of helping the poor seems almost hopeless. Both "sides" of the debate take hard lines that leave no room for the traditional ...