I’ve been doing a bit of reading about poverty and the impact of welfare programs the past couple days and have come across some really fascinating, innovative ideas and research.
Poverty
Divorce Granted, Justice Denied
Frontier Centre in the media from the National Post.
Joel Kotkin: Why Housing Affordability Matters
“Uber Geographer” Joel Kotkin weighs in on the housing affordability debate, arguing that limits imposed on housing supply by housing ethoses such as “smart growth” are taking us to a paradigm of neo-feudalism.
Calvin Helin, Author ‘The Economic Dependency Trap’
Calvin Helin worked his way up from an impoverished boyhood in a remote First Nations village in northern British Columbia to become a successful lawyer and international businessman. He has dedicated his life to helping others break the bonds of economic dependency and emerge with newfound confidence and self-worth.
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A Year of LNG Royalties/Taxes from a Single Pipeline Could Pay for …
Sitting on top of one of the world’s largest and richest natural resource warehouses is turning into quite a disconcerting distraction. While much of Canada’s population – the heavily urban part for whom “rural” means Whistler, Muskoka, or Mont Tremblant – likes to...
Medical Martial Law – Never Again
The economic upheaval now roiling over the world’s financial markets, rapidly lowering living standards, and even threatening to freeze Europeans this winter, is all directly related to the radical decision most western leaders took in March of 2020., when a new...
The Power of Vested Interests vs The Power of Productivity
I received a generous letter from the executive chairman of the World Economic Forum this week telling me I had been selected as a Young Global Leader 2007 by an international jury presided over by Queen Rania of Jordan. A friend of mine joked that I am now "a dupe of...
What the Real-Wage Pessimists Are Missing
The claim that average real wages for working people are falling is false. Those who conclude that ignore changes in the work week, do not properly account for the effects of inflation and incorrectly calculate the value of non-wage benefits.
The Global Poor Are Getting Richer, Faster
Some good news from the Global Economics Prospects 2007 report by the World Bank,
Scandal of 5m on Benefits
Bill Clinton made some great strides in welfare reform, now England is trying to do the same.
In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State
Our book review of Charles Murray’s In Our Hands
Define Poverty Stop Poverty Fraud
The notion that gross exaggeration in a good cause is somehow justified merely gets good causes a bad name.
Lifestyles of the Superrich and Not So Famous
Why we are the richest people to have ever lived.
Brown’s Cash Blitz Is Hurting Poorest Areas
Record levels of spending have made many regions of Britain “colonies” of London and the southeast, widening the north-south divide, the research from Reform, a think tank, shows.
Charitable Giving In Canada
The claim that taxes might come down if Canadians increased private donations has it backwards. We can’t give more because we’re not left with enough disposable income to do that.