Joe Carter is a Senior Editor at the Acton Institute. Joe also serves as an editor at the The Gospel Coalition, a communications specialist for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and as an adjunct professor of journalism at Patrick Henry College. He is the editor of the NIV Lifehacks Bible and co-author of How to Argue like Jesus: Learning Persuasion from History's Greatest Communicator (Crossway).
Posts by Joe Carter
March 15, 2017
Yes, It’s Better To Be Poor In The Mississippi Delta Than In Bangladesh
John Daniel Davidson,
The Federalist
Nobel laureate Angus Deaton recognizes the plight of America’s poor, but he’s reluctant to say the poor are often the authors of their own misfortune.
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March 14, 2017
On Monday the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its report on the projected effects of the House Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.
Here are five facts you should know about the federal agency that “scores” legislation:
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March 14, 2017
Note: This is post #24 in a weekly video series on basic microeconomics.
When prices are controlled, the mutually profitable gains from free trade cannot be fully realized, creating what is known as deadweight loss.
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March 14, 2017
Frederick Douglass Hated Socialism
Damon Root,
Reason.com
He stood for natural rights, racial equality, and economic liberty in a free labor system. At the heart of his worldview was the principle of self-ownership.
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March 13, 2017
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Bad policy is not transformed into good policy simply because it’s advocated by good people with good intentions. This should be obvious—especially to conservatives—yet it’s a lesson we continually have to relearn.
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March 13, 2017
Mobile Phones Are Anti-Poverty Devices
obert Colvile,
FEE
M-Pesa alone has lifted 194,000 households out of poverty.
House Backs Bill To Deter Lawsuits In Business-friendly Push
Kevin Freking,
Associated Press
The Republican-led House on Friday backed legislation that requires judges to sanction attorneys and other parties who file frivolous lawsuits in federal district court, a move that supporters said will protect individuals and businesses from unnecessary legal costs.
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March 10, 2017
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Series Note: Jobs are one of the most important aspects of a morally functioning economy. They help us serve the needs of our neighbors and lead to human flourishing both for the individual and for communities.
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March 10, 2017
Women Prosper When Markets Are Free
Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan,
FEE
Cross-referencing data from the Fraser Institute, which looks at general economic freedom, and World Bank in the United Nations, which looks at gender disparity, we see that countries that are more economically free also have more gender equality.
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March 09, 2017
President Johnson and Tom Fletcher / Photo by Walter Bennett
To kick off his 1964 “war on poverty” initiative, President Lyndon B. Johnson held a photo op at the home of a man named Tom Fletcher, an unemployed 38-year-old father of eight.
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March 09, 2017
What the unemployment rate does – and doesn’t – say about the economy
Drew Desilver,
Pew Research
Every month, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics releases a flood of data about employment and unemployment in the U.S.
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