By Chris Nagavonski, TES Contributor Many people think of poverty as just a lower average level of prosperity. To them, a poor neighborhood is still a row of houses or a block of apartments with people in them, albeit less fortunate people. But as Chris Rufo’s documentary America Lost shows, poverty doesn’t just stunt […]
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To fight entrenched poverty, Egypt MUST reform
“Why Egypt is not on a path to end its long struggle with poverty” By Mahmoud Farouk, courtesy of Atlas Network In 1979, Fouad Ajami wrote that Egypt finds herself between her “pride and place, between her limited material resources and her unbounded psychological esteem for herself, between her old glory and her current poverty.” […]
Yummy: Thanksgiving dinner costs less than ever
“Thanksgiving Dinner Costs Less and Other Reasons to Be Thankful” By Chelsea Follett, courtesy of the Cato Institute Watching the news or discussing it with your family at Thanksgiving dinner, it is not hard to fall into the trap of thinking that the entire world is moving in a negative direction. It may be […]
We Need to Defend Innovation in Latin America
By Federico Fernández, founder, Somos Innovación We live in an era where great things have happened thanks to innovation. Everybody loves innovation and recognizes that is a force for progress. With the exception of maybe North Korea, no government in the world has an official policy to prohibit innovation or harass innovative people. […]