EVERYONE INVOLVED IN "WELFARE REFORM" COULD usefully read "What Money Can't Buy" (Harvard University Press), a study by economist Susan Mayer of the University of Chicago. Its message is somber: as a ...

The idea that there is a "culture of poverty" has been anathema to social scientists--liberal ones, in particular--since Johnson's assistant labor secretary Daniel Patrick Moynihan introduced it in ...

Life should be about work and achievement, money is to be managed, the future is important, education is necessary for climbing the ladder of success and a person can change his future by making wise ...

Critics of Rep. Paul Ryan's remarks about cultural factors in the persistence of poverty are simultaneously shrill and boring. Their predictable minuet of synthetic indignation demonstrates how little ...

We used to be trapped. And by “we,” I really do mean all of us. A few hundred years ago, the majority of the world lived in extreme poverty, and even in recent decades, people lucky enough to clear ...