Tag: poverty

The WHO Is a Real and Present Danger

Commentary Our governments intend to transfer decisions over our health, families, and societal freedoms to the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), whenever he or she declares it necessary. The success of this transfer of power depends on public ignorance of its implications, and of the nature of the WHO itself and its…


Abandoning the Working Class for Freeloaders

Commentary The Democratic Party, long known as the party for working people, is now for freeloaders. Democrats want taxpayers to support people who refuse to get off the couch and get a job. That’s the major reason Democrats and Republicans in Washington were locked in a stalemate for weeks over hiking the debt ceiling. The…


Living Cost Crisis Causes More Australians to Plunge into Extreme Poverty: Report

A charity organisation has found that tens of thousands of Australians are experiencing food insecurity and cannot afford basic items amid high living cost pressures. According to new research by the Australian branch of the Salvation Army, which studied 1,700 people using the charity’s services in the past 12 months, 93 percent of the respondents…


The Continued Wrecking of New York City

Commentary It’s been nearly 11 months since the end of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Key to NYC” vaccine mandate and public-school masking requirements. And President Joe Biden recently announced an end to the pandemic-related state of emergency on May 11. Yet many private businesses, cultural institutions, and schools continue to cling to COVID-era restrictions. The…


George Soros Laying Waste to American Cities?

Wall Street titan George Soros has spent millions to back district attorneys from coast to coast who refuse to enforce the laws they are sworn to uphold. The result is predictable and disastrous—major American cities, from New York to Los Angeles and Portland to Philadelphia, are suffering from soaring crime rates. Those who can afford to…


Community-Run Initiative Emphasizes Self-Sufficiency to Give Hope and Employment to the Underprivileged

OSHAWA—Inside a small Seventh-day Adventist church tucked away in Oshawa’s southeastern side on Nov. 30, 10 people stood on a stage and held diplomas in one hand while raising the other high in the air in a gesture of triumph. They weren’t graduating from high school, college, or university. They were celebrating how a small initiative—run…


Community Action Agencies: Trouble From the Start in LBJ’s War on Poverty

Still prevalent in the Biden social-spending era, community action agencies date to the early 1960s, envisioned by the field marshals of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty as a way not just to identify and help the needy but to engage the poor in political activism. “Governors in southern states were moving slow on civil…


An American Tradition: Chronic Anti-Poverty Waste Via the Federal-to-Local Distribution Pipeline

For six years, beginning in 2014, the accounting firm for the Southeast Alabama Community Action Partnership warned administrators that the organization was doing a poor job of managing the millions of dollars in taxpayer money it received annually for its poverty-reduction work, including home energy assistance and foster grandparenting. In 2018, a longtime employee filed a federal complaint alleging…


4 Myths About Pandemic Preparedness

Commentary We are assured by the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, the G20, and their friends that pandemics pose an existential threat to our survival and well-being. Pandemics are becoming more common, and if we don’t move urgently we will have ourselves to blame for more mass death of the “next pandemic.” The proof of this is the catastrophic…


The Shadow State | Documentary

“The Shadow State,” a feature documentary by The Epoch Times, takes a deep dive inside the eenvironmental, social, and governance (ESG) industry, an emerging multitrillion-dollar power structure that unites governments with corporations in the march toward a brave new world of climate and social justice. See how it works, what its goals are, and who is…