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America’s Poor Still Lack Access to Basic Banking Services
Gillian B. White, The Atlantic

In recent years, the Treasury Department has made financial inclusion a priority. What’s to come?

Biblical Principles of Discernment for Developing Wise Leadership
Glenn Brooke, Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics

The King of Israel had observable facts but needed divine guidance to avoid danger.

What Is Cronyism and Why Is It a Cancer?
Daniel J. Mitchell, FEE

Cronyism is a cancer that compromises and erodes genuine capitalism.

Energy Poverty Is Much Worse for the Poor Than Climate Change
Ronald Bailey, Reason.com

“Lifting all of humanity out of energy poverty does increase the risk of catastrophic climate change impacts to some unknowable degree,” concludes the Breakthrough Institute report. “But it is untenable morally and practically to insist that global climate change targets be balanced upon the backs of the poorest people on earth.”

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Joe Carter 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).