For the last couple of years, I’ve been unhappy with the ”short term missions” model that many churches use. It seems to involve a lot of good feelings about going somewhere else to experience ”true poverty”, working there for 1-3 weeks, coming home, showing lots of pictures of really poor people, and talking about the …
I talked earlier this week about capitalism and its blessings, in regard to cleanliness. Consider this, about the blessings of capitalism in regard to food.
What’s so tragic about this is that we know from experience how to fix the problem. Wherever the rural poor have gained access to improved roads, modern seeds, less …
Beth Hanley, I weep for thee.
Armed with a Georgetown University diploma, Beth Hanley embarked in her 20s on a path hoping to become a professional world-saver. First she worked at nonprofit Bread for the World. Then she taught middle school English in central Africa with the Peace Corps. Finally, to certify her idealism, …
What causes poverty in America? Greedy capitalistic businessmen? Unethical financiers? How about marriage?:
For the most part, long-term poverty today is self-inflicted. To see this, let’s examine some numbers from the Census Bureau’s 2004 Current Population Survey. There’s one segment of the black population that suffers only a 9.9 percent poverty rate, and only …
How to relieve poverty in oil-rich third-world countries.
Invade and take over the oil wells Give control of the oil wells to private corporations The government — deprived of easy oil money to buy elections and support — will begin to govern better
It’s crazy, but it just might work.