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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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May 25, 2026 / Tyler Durden
It Was Never About The Climate
It Was Never About The Climate
Authored by Silvio Canto Jr via AmericanThinker.com,
Here is a question for your long weekend:
Why haven’t you ever seen a climate change protest before the Chinese embassy anywhere?
Why is it always the US or capitalism messing up the environment?
Why don’t they show up at all when China is a bigger threat to clean air than any US city?
The answer is obvious, but I’ll say it.
It was never about the climate but rather capitalism or the US.
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In 2024, climate activists in New...
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Mar 25, 2026 / Dave DeCamp
Russia and Ukraine Trade Major Drone Attacks as Peace Process Is Stalled
Russia and Ukraine traded massive drone attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday as Russian forces in eastern Ukraine appear to have launched a new spring offensive, as much of the world’s attention is on the US-Israeli war against Iran in the Middle East. The Russian military bombarded Ukraine with drones overnight Monday into Tuesday and during […]
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May 16, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Lefty Union Paralyzes Long Island Rail Road As Strike Sets Commuter Chaos Countdown For Monday
Lefty Union Paralyzes Long Island Rail Road As Strike Sets Commuter Chaos Countdown For Monday
Yet another reason for privatizing mass transportation emerged Saturday morning, after a left-wing rail union launched a strike set to snarl the nation's busiest commuter railroad network.
The labor action threatens to paralyze the Long Island Rail Road, a critical transportation artery spanning the New York City-to-Long Island corridor and linking Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens with Nassau and Suffolk counties.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen (BLET), which endorsed former left-wing and failed presidential candidate Kamala...
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