Posts Tagged 'war on poverty'

Made in America Panel Cautions Americans to Redefine “Poor”

Made in America Panel Cautions Americans to Redefine “Poor”

Host Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 48 stations) with some trepidation about the astounding IPO (Initial Public Offering) for China’s Alibaba’s wholesale e-tail site, which carried an initial market capitalization of $250 billion, and processes some 11.3 billion orders a year.

Co-host Dr. Rich Roffman compared it to the initial enthusiasm when Blockbuster first went public during the 1990s, and characterized the Alibaba IPO as the “current investment darling ...

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Made in America Panel Wants to see American Citizens get to the Front of the Line for Good Paying Jobs

Made in America Panel Wants to see American Citizens get to the Front of the Line for Good Paying Jobs

Host Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 48 stations) by expressing empathy for the millions of Americans living in poverty, because they are locked into low paying part-time jobs.  Neal challenged listeners not to accept the status quo and ask representatives to explain how the nation wasted $20 trillion on the War on Poverty (created under Lyndon Johnson), and yet today we still have more people living in poverty ...

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A Culture of Dependency

A Culture of Dependency

In most wars a victor is declared. Yet, there is one war that has raged for more than half a century and there is no winner: the war on poverty.

It started under the Lyndon Johnson administration with the best intentions. Now 50 years and $20 trillion later, poverty in this nation has actually grown worse.

How can the richest nation on earth have 50 million people living in poverty? The answer is that we have substituted a path to employment for ...

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Made in America Panel Proposes that Government has created a Culture of Dependency

Made in America Panel Proposes that Government has created  a Culture of Dependency

Neal Asbury began his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 46 stations) with the sobering news that after 50 years of waging the War on Poverty – begun under the Johnson administration—that the U.S. has nothing to show for the $20 trillion it has spent on this pressing issue.  Worse, there still are no real solutions.

Co-host Dr. Rich Roffman agreed, adding that the word “poverty” has such negative connotations that it is now ...

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