Jillian Schneider is a member of the Acton Institute’s 2021 Emerging Leaders class. She is a senior at Azusa Pacific University majoring in Communication Studies and Honors Humanities. She enjoys reading C.S. Lewis, playing tennis, and watching Star Wars.
Posts by Jillian Schneider
August 23, 2021
Families and free market economies: On the surface, they seem unrelated. We associate family with game nights, holiday traditions, and cute baby photos, while the economy is associated with the stock market, cold-hearted businessmen, and bloated corporations.
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July 27, 2021
It’s been barely a month since California reopened, and some counties are already beginning to reinstate mask mandates, even for fully vaccinated residents. This is but the latest pivot in California’s ongoing response to the pandemic, marked by constant bureaucratic whiplash and a flood of social, economic, and political crises.
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July 14, 2021
This year, for the first time in American history, Juneteenth was celebrated as a federal holiday. Upon signing the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, President Joe Biden said that “the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans didn’t mark the end of America’s work to deliver on the promise of equality; it only marked the beginning.”
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