IOWA CITY — Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum told The Family Leader event attendees that the U.S. can’t have a strong economy without strong families, and that children raised by single parents have less economic opportunities than those with two-parent households. When asked if his contrast of two-parent More…
Yesterday, speaking on the House floor, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) suggested an offensive, if creative, form of welfare reform. Via Media Matters’ Political Correction, the Congressman argued:
The Washington Post ran a thought-provoking op-ed Sunday that posed a simple question: “What will future generations condemn us for?”
Kwame Anthony Appiah, a philosophy professor at Princeton University, offered four possibilities, including the world’s treatment and disregard for the environment.
Today, the Department of Housing and Urban Development released its annual report on homelessness in America. The report found that the number of homeless people declined slightly from 2008 to 2009, but that the Great Recession and housing crash have left more families with children homeless. All in all, More…
Via Wonkbook, this morning, the Foundation for Child Development released its annual report on the well-being of America’s children, and it should send shivers down the spine of every legislator and economic policy analyst in Washington. The report shows that on a number of metrics, particularly relating More…
It’s been trumpeted as one of the key elements in the Democrats’ plan to expand access to health care for tens of millions of vulnerable Americans.
Yet a provision of the newly passed health reform bill that raises doctors’ payments under Medicaid is both temporary and limited in the More…
Gary Bauer, the religious conservative leader who was undersecretary of Education under President Reagan, and who now runs American Values, tells supporters in his daily email that the president’s Sept. 8 speech to schoolchildren is an example of the White House “using its power in unprecedented ways.” Parents, writes More…
After his press conference on education at a Chicago elementary school, Barack Obama headed upstairs to chat with a small group of first- to fourth-graders, according to the pool report.
Somehow, the kids got out of him what reporters couldn’t: when asked by a child when he would bring More…
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