Our government does a lot of social engineering through the tax code and through our safety net programs. These programs and the tax code sometimes contain incentives that trap people in poverty and create a culture of dependence. These incentives have destroyed families and caused generations of poverty, not alleviated …
Education and Employment go hand in hand. The best way to make gains in equality is to start at the beginning. Literacy rates and high school graduation rates are strong indicators of future success. What’s more is we know how to solve a good chunk of these problems and the …
Our criminal justice system has never been color blind. Even with an overall reduction in crime we have had a massive increase in our prison population, and that population is very disproportionately Black. Criminal justice both feeds off of and produces the increasing wealth gap between White Americans and Black …
This is part 1 in a 8 part series detailing the problems and some potential solutions to the racial inequities in America. Originally this was a single post, but the formatting for a 12,000+ word article didn’t work well. This isn’t based on Libertarian, Republican, or Democrat ideology. These are …