Millennial co-founder Christopher Hale has a new article at Crux. He writes: In an August 2014 Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Ryan apologized for using the language of “makers and takers” in the past to describe the relationship between the rich and the poor: The phrase gave insult where none was intended. People struggling and… Read More Paul Ryan should take the pope’s words to heart
Millennial writer John McCarthy has a new article at NCR. He writes: His past leadership should give us a clear picture of what we can expect from a Speaker Ryan: doubling down on the failed notion that supporting the rich will allow everyone else to prosper. This has not only been disproven countless times—but is… Read More Paul Ryan: Good for Republicans, Bad for America
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Who cares about the value of work? by EJ Dionne: “One of last week’s most important and least noted political events was the introduction of the 21st Century Worker Tax Cut Act by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. Murray favors a minimum wage increase to $10.10 an… Read More Around the Web (Part 1)
Paul Ryan’s latest makeover is designed to fix his plutocratic image and rehabilitate his future political prospects. It is designed to counter claims that Republicans are indifferent to poverty and revive the image of Paul Ryan as a “serious thinker” who cares about policy, an image that was shattered in the 2012 campaign when many… Read More Paul Ryan is Still Paul Ryan
According to Paul Ryan and his ilk, an unfettered free market produces the most just distribution of wealth and resources, and private charity’s role is to make outcomes more tolerable for those who don’t fare well under the guidance of the Invisible Hand. It is based on the blind faith, impervious to all empirical facts,… Read More Sister Simone Schools Congressman Reid Ribble
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Paul Ryan Focusing More on Hurting the Poor by Jonathan Chait “It’s one thing to tailor policy to encourage people to work. It’s another to create a new punishment for people who can’t find jobs. And given the baseline reality of mass unemployment for low-skilled workers,… Read More Around the Web 6/30/13
Fifty years ago today, Pope John XXIII proclaimed that the Church is a “Church of all and in particular the Church of the poor.” This statement, from a radio address one month before the opening of Vatican II, was further developed in a number of council documents that articulated the nature and mission of the… Read More Fifty Years Later, Are We Still the Church of the Poor?
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