Marco Rubio: The most important job is being a parent
'You can't have a strong nation without strong values,' the Florida senator said at last night's debate.
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Articles tagged Economics
Clinton-era labor secretary Robert Reich: Defunding Planned Parenthood ‘morally wrong’
A former U.S. secretary of labor has released a video claiming that to defund Planned Parenthood would be "morally wrong."
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Vatican counselors: What is the Church thinking?
Two Vatican counselors on climate change have provided cause for concerned Catholics to wonder what the criteria are for such people.
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‘Every life matters’: Rick Santorum announces new bid for president
'With your help and God's grace, we can change this nation,' he said in his hometown.
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Children raised by married parents are wealthier, more educated than their peers: New study
Median incomes would be 44 percent higher if America had the same rate of married parents as it did in 1980.
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It’s never been less expensive to raise children in Canada, study finds
“An annual outlay of $3,000 to $4,500, depending on the community or region and the age of the child, would be sufficient" to raise a child.
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The source of future wealth: Babies
June 28, 2013 (Acton Institute) – Would your life be better off if only half as many people had lived before you? That’s the intriguing question Ramez Naam asks in his new book, The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet. As Ronald Bailey says in a review of the book, In this thought experiment, you don’t get to pick which people are never born. Perhaps there would have been no Newton, Edison, or Pasteur, no Socrates, Shakespeare, or Jefferson. “Each additional idea is a gift to the future,” Naam writes. “Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future […]
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After DOMA, end ‘marriage’ benefits and reward parenthood: Policy expert
“Maybe it’s time to abandon marriage as an important category for benefits,” Dr. Allan F. Carlson of The Howard Center told LifeSiteNews.com.
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Secular economist discovers: Human beings are our greatest natural resource
June 24, 2013 (Acton Institute) – If the PowerBlog has a favorite atheist libertarian economist, it’s probably George Mason professor Don Boudreaux. Although he isn’t a believer, he sometimes stumbles upon what I would consider to be Christian insights. Consider, for instance, his take on the term “natural resources”: In nearly all contexts, words and phrases inevitably convey not only information (such as, as Deirdre would say, “telephone numbers”), but also ideas – notions – interpretations – perspectives – biases – prejudices – spins -approval or disapproval – informal theories – attitudes and judgments – unconscious conclusions. And much of all […]
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A country's economy is determined by the quality of its marriages
Marriage is related to productivity, unemployment, and education, among other components of a healthy economy.
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