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Trump Says $5 Billion Pledged for Gaza Reconstruction, But Hamas Must Disarm
President Donald Trump announced that the Board of Peace had received $5 billion in donations for Gaza aid and reconstruction. The President also repeated his demand that Hamas disarm. Trump wrote on Truth Social Sunday that the Board of Peace “will announce that Member States have pledged more than $5 BILLION DOLLARS toward the Gaza […]
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Measuring Poverty Correctly Reveals A Hard Truth About The Welfare State
Measuring Poverty Correctly Reveals A Hard Truth About The Welfare State
Authored by Tyler Turman via TheDailyEconomy.org,
America has spent more than $20 trillion on fighting poverty since the introduction of President Johnson’s Great Society program in 1964. Sixty years later, how are we doing?
That depends, as it turns out, on how you measure it.
Last month, Senator Kennedy (R-LA) introduced a bill that would require the Census Bureau to report a new poverty metric as an alternative to the Official Poverty Measure (OPM) by including both cash and non-cash welfare benefits in its calculations.
As Kennedy points...
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The Sy Hersh effect: killing the messenger, ignoring the message




