America Should Be An Opportunity Society
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – Come January 20, 2021, Joe Biden will be unable to effectively govern...
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The Poor Need Opportunity, Not Redistribution Taxing the super rich will not solve deep socio-economic issues
WASHINGTON – On the left, the conventional wisdom is that too many people are poor in America because a...
Public School Teachers Send Their Own Kids To Private Schools Those who run the system know how bad it is. And so they protect their own children children from it
WASHINGTON – US public schools are so bad that many public schools teachers –that is those who have first hand...
Without Access To A Good Education America’s Poor Will Stay Poor Entitlement programs and subsidies do not provide a real path out of poverty
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama won re-election in 2012 largely on the promise that, with him as president, all the existing...
Pew Research Center: 72% of Black Children Raised By Single Mothers Leaving aside any moral considerations, poor young mothers will raise poor children with no real chances of getting an education and good jobs
WASHINGTON – The Pew Research Center just provided fresh data about the American family. Well, we sort of knew...
Democracy Is More Than Free Elections As America's Founders recognized, self-government is premised on sensible, educated citizens pursuing the common good on the basis of realistic ideas
By Paolo von Schirach February 15, 2014 WASHINGTON – In America many, including well-educated people, believe that “democracy” is really...
The Tea Party Has Become An Ideological, “Anti-Everything” Group – The Republican Party Needs A Strong Message Of Opportunity And Inclusiveness – Chris Christie Could Articulate It Ken Cuccinelli lost in Virginia in large part because he could not get women to vote for him. The conservative social values agenda is horribly outmoded
By Paolo von Schirach November 11, 2013 WASHINGTON – At the very beginning, the Tea Party insurgency had some...
No Way For America To Compete Effectively Unless It Improves Its Dismal Public Education System Most children in Philadelphia cannot read, yet their teachers get good marks. How is this possible?
By Paolo von Schirach September 25, 2013 WASHINGTON – There is really no dispute about the fact that in this hyper...
Mediocre July Jobs Report Points To Lower Standards Of Living In The US Most of the new 162,000 jobs are low paying positions in retail. Too many part time jobs. The end of American upward mobility?
By Paolo von Schirach August 3, 2013 WASHINGTON – The latest US jobs figures are alarming. Sure, we added...
With A Slowing Economy, China Is On Its Way To Becoming A “Normal” Country Construction boom and export-led manufacturing not as strong as before. Huge amounts of bad loans. Environmental disaster
By Paolo von Schirach July 15, 2013 WASHINGTON – If you listen to Beijing Government officials, everything in China’s economy is...