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Alabama Church Pays Off Payday Loans
About twenty years ago I made some terrible choices and found myself in a serious financial bind. The amount I needed wasn’t much — about $200 — but without it I wouldn’t have been able to pay my rent....
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Video: Magatte Wade On The Power Of Business
During her evening plenary presentation, Magatte Wade asked the audience to raise their hand if they cared about poverty alleviation; hands went up all over the room. She followed up by asking how many...
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Should ideas be considered property?
Jeffrey Tucker lectures at Acton University. The industrial revolution did not begin in the eighteenth century, but was a gradual process of development comprised of the individual actions of...
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‘You are the spring that puts all the rest in motion’
By Jacques Reich (undoubtedly based on a work by another artist) – Appletons’ Cyclopædia of American Biography, 1900, v. 5, p. 438, Public Domain,...
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Lessons from Poverty, Inc.
“An underlying theme in basic economics says, ‘offering a product for free can destroy the local economy’” writes Luis Miranda. Miranda recently watched Poverty, Inc and since seeing the award winning...
View ArticleHow free trade fosters a creative, collaborative world
In their defenses of free trade, advocates routinely focus only on the long-term, economic benefits, and understandably so. The overall expansion of trade in recent years has led to greater economic...
View ArticleCalled to the coalfields: How an Appalachian church is spurring economic action
Due to a rapidly changing economy and a range of excessive regulations from the federal government, the American coal mining industry is facing serious challenges. For states like West Virginia, the...
View Article5 Facts about refugees in America
Today is World Refugee Day, an annual observance created by the United Nations to “commemorate the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees.” Here are five facts you should know about...
View ArticleThree developments or reversals of Church doctrine?
“The Church changed its teaching on usury.” If I had ten cents for every time I have heard this, by now I might have enough to buy myself lunch – and more! Continue Reading... Related posts:...
View ArticleExamining the moral basis of Pope Francis’ pleas for financial regulation –...
In his Prayer Intentions for May 2021, Pope Francis is asking that Catholics pray for strict regulation of financial markets to protect the poor. But is strict government oversight what really protects...
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