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Robert Rector, a Heritage Foundation domestic policy expert, debunked the myth that welfare reform caused extreme poverty. In a recently …
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WATCH: Do We Need to Reform Welfare Again?
Rev. Derek McCoy, National Director for Clergy Relations for Star Parker’s Center for Urban Renewal and Education, recently spoke with Fox …
Read More »Welfare Reform and the ‘Extreme Poverty’ Myth
The Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector, an expert on domestic policy, wrote an op-ed for the organization’s Daily Signal on the state of welfare …
Read More »How to Alleviate Poverty? The Answer Is NOT the Welfare State
Star Parker, founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), recently spoke at the Western Conservative …
Read More »Why Do Some Republicans and Libertarians Support Universal Basic Income?
(BCN edit’s note: See Part I of this article.) Too many social problems are conceived of in terms of what …
Read More »This Is Worse Than ‘Poverty’ in Low-Income Neighborhoods
(BCN editor’s note: This the first part of a two-part article. See Part II.) Among the many disturbing signs of …
Read More »House GOP Unveils ‘Better’ Way to Fight Poverty
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives created the Task Force on Poverty, Opportunity, & Upward Mobility to explore alternatives …
Read More »Star Parker Inspires College Students
CURE’s Star Parker attended an event hosted by the Network for Enlightened Women last month, where she talked about her …
Read More »Breaking the Cycle of Government Dependency – Firsthand Experience
…and much more. Star Parker, founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, author, columnist, and speaker, …
Read More »The Government-Dependency Dilemma
The so-called War of Poverty hasn’t conquered poverty. Government dependency leads to more dependency. But according to a new book titled …
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