No amount of money can fix bad parenting
A recent New York Times investigatory piece on Dasani Coates, a homeless 11-year-old girl, wrongly conveys the view that poverty is always “an impersonal force wrought by capitalism, with no way out...
View ArticleSouth saddled by immobility
Family instability, a dearth of good schools and jobs, and the lack of a middle class are widening the gap between the poor and the rich, especially in the South, making upward mobility that much more...
View ArticleValues and beliefs can influence success
It seems un-American to assert that certain groups of Americans are outperforming their countrymen, say Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld in The New York Times. But immigrant groups that include people from...
View ArticleScapegoating the rich won’t help the poor
Blaming economic inequality for many of society’s problems scapegoats the rich and creates the falsehood that punishing the wealthy “will miraculously uplift the poor” when “economic inequality is...
View ArticleCulture doesn’t cause poverty
Paul Ryan is wrong to blame inner-city culture as a cause of poverty because, while blacks do have higher poverty rates than whites, those rates are declining as black poverty continues to recover...
View ArticleParalysis of perfection
“In the world of entrepreneurship, perfection is more of a liability than an asset,” writes Vanessa Loder for Forbes. “If you believe that you need to be perfect, you are less likely to take risks, and...
View ArticleDo more for the children
On the same day the state Department of Labor reported significant drops in jobless rates in the region and across the state, another more detailed assessment of the economy revealed that for far too...
View ArticleThe richest person in each state
Washington state resident and Microsoft founder Bill Gates’ $80 billion net worth makes him the richest person in the country, reports Kevin Short for Huffington Post. But where do the rest of the...
View ArticleGraphic shows best places for mobility
The New York Times has created an interactive graphic that demonstrates the impact location has on poverty and upward mobility in America by showing income mobility by county. Locally, a poor child...
View ArticleCollege presidents should take less pay
Few university presidents give enough “thought to the symbolism and dissonance of extraordinarily generous salaries, which are in sync with this era of lavish executive pay and glaring income...
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