What Are We To Do About Poverty?

The Great Society programs of LBJ worked for us and failed us. One of its many benefits is the decrease in the number of elderly living in poverty. Food Stamps and welfare helped feed millions of people who would have gone hungry. But for about 20 years now, we have been embarassed to talk about [...]

Did U Know? African Americans Are America’s Most Charitable Group

“A 2003 giving pattern study by the Chronicle of Philanthropy found that African-American donors give, on average, 25% more of their discretionary income to charity than whites in the same income bracket. The study also found that in counties and cities with an above-average number of black residents earning $50,000 a year or more, giving [...]

Clinton Blasts President Bush on Iraq, Katrina and the Growing Federal Deficit

On Iraq . . .“Breaking with tradition under which US presidents mute criticisms of their successors, Clinton said the Bush administration had decided to invade Iraq “virtually alone and before UN inspections were completed, with no real urgency, no evidence that there were weapons of mass destruction.”
We have never done this before. Never in the [...]