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
August 02, 2019
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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August 02, 2019
Pete Buttigieg Calls Opponents Of A $15 Minimum Wage ‘So-called Christians’
Joshua Lawson,
The Federalist
The failed economic policies put forth by Pete Buttigieg hurt the same poor he wants to help.
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August 01, 2019
Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposed a measure it claims will close a loophole that allows states to make participants receiving minimal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits automatically eligible to participate in USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
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August 01, 2019
Helping the Needy: What’s the Christian Thing to Do?
Lawrence W. Reed,
FEE
Would Jesus, his apostles, or anyone of authority in the early Church approve of socialism?
Elizabeth Warren threatens a lose-lose US trade policy
Oliver Wiseman,
CapX
By toxifying protectionism, it looks like the President has detoxified trade.
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July 31, 2019
Over the past five years some welfare advocates have been promoting an eye-opening claim: more than 3 million U.S. households—including 1.65 million households with children—are living on less than $2 per person, per day.
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July 31, 2019
World Bank Study Finds That Deregulation Reduces Extreme Poverty
Craig Eyermann,
The Beacon
National Service Is a Terrible Idea
Conor Friedersdorf,
The Atlantic
John Delaney’s plan amounts to forced labor.
What’s Exceptional About American Exceptionalism?
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July 30, 2019
Americans claim to hate fraud and corruption. Yet we also tend to despise and discourage those who “snitch” and expose such crimes. How do we reconcile these contradictory positions?
Today is “National Whistleblower Appreciation Day,” an observance to celebrate people who come forward to raise the alarm about a problem within government or a public organization.
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July 30, 2019
Communism and Catholicism Are Not Compatible
Nora Sullivan,
CNS News
Just as Communism is actively opposed to Christianity, so is Catholicism opposed to communism both in practice and in theory.
Capitalism Isn’t the Reason We’re Unhappy
Ryan McMaken,
Mises Wire
Doctrinaire anti-capitalists have now branched out into blaming capitalism for a host of other social, ecological, and psychological ills.
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July 29, 2019
Edmund Burke’s Case for Private Charity Over the Welfare State
Kai Weiss,
Mises Wire
When it comes to the role of government in society, a relatively unknown work of his can be especially illuminating.
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July 26, 2019
What just happened?
Yesterday the House of Representatives passed a passed a two-year budget and an agreement to once again raise the debt limit. The bill, known as the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019, is expected to be passed by the Senate next week.
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