Fighting Poverty Isn’t That Hard

Ryan Cooper: “The brute reality is that about half the people in the country do not work, because they are children, students, retired, disabled, and so on.”

“Nations with the lowest poverty in the world, like Iceland and Denmark, have gotten there through the Magic Money Trick: handing out money to nonworkers to cure their shortage of money.”

“The Biden administration is now crowing about this achievement on poverty, for obvious reasons.”