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No, millions of Americans are not living on less than $2 per day

July 31, 2019 • by Joe Carter

No, millions of Americans are not living on less than $2 per day

Over the past five years some welfare advocates have been promoting an eye-opening claim: more than 3 million U.S. households—including 1.65 million households with children—are living on less than $2 per person, per day. Continue Reading...

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No, millions of Americans are not living on less than $2 per day

No, millions of Americans are not living on less than $2 per day

Latest Posts

Viktor Frankl on the error of the pleasure principle

Innovation in Nepal: Lessons on economic freedom from a farmer-entrepreneur

Why do we hate whistleblowers?

First Things Interviews Samuel Gregg about his new book

Boris Johnson: Where there is a vision, the people flourish?

Brazil needs a right-wing intellectual movement

French-language readers of transatlantic learn of free-market environmentalism

Explainer: What you should know about the federal government’s two-year budget deal

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