Category Archives: Aid Reform

Many parents could provide their children with much better lives. These parents could create an enviornment more conducive to personal success for their child. Many of these parents live in poverty, and thus force their children to grow up in poverty. Children who grow up in poverty have a much greater chance of ending up […]

Thanksgiving has just passed and the December holiday season has already begun. Charities and hunger relief organizations see a massive influx of donations and volunteering during these holidays, especially Thanksgiving and Christmas. Unfortunately, the rest of the year, these same organizations usually need much more volunteering and donations, especially the volunteering because extra money can […]

Many anti-poverty and anti-hunger efforts consist of simple, short-term acts of charity, such as soup kitchens or free-food picnics. Food Not Bombs, for example, often schedules public rallies where the volunteers provide food that everyone including the homeless and poor can come and eat for free. Feeding a person a meal will fend off their […]

An article today from The Canadian Press reports that tougher welfare rules in Canada have proved effective at reducing poverty. Generally, I oppose government-funded and government-managed welfare. Though, I do not want to abruptly abolish it, because many people and families depend on it. Of course, welfare helps cause this dependency. When we give people […]

I have been doing community service at Foodshare on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I have been working at a produce warehouse. The workers and I sort fruits and vegetables, mostly bagging them up while throwing out the bad ones. Foodshare is a great organization, in my opinion. I knew before doing the community service that they […]

A recent Washington Post editorial addressed Michael Bloomberg and the earned-income tax credit. I include an excerpt: Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he is not running for president. Yet that didn’t stop him from coming to Washington last week to promote an expansion of the earned-income tax credit as the next phase in the war on […]