Arthur Brooks make his case in an unforgettable way. He’s speaking July 18 at a luncheon in Charlotte. He wowed the crowd at our Conservative Leadership Conference; this will interest anyone concerned about where our society is heading.
The Takers Are Gaining Fast on the Makers
As a previous post noted, Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute asserts that in many ways the U.S. already is a social democracy — in other words, we’re already far down the Road to Serfdom. Gulp! (BTW, he’ll be speaking in Charlotte next week: Wednesday, July 18) To say we’re like Spain or Greece [...]
Dropout problems not confined to K-12
Most significantly, community college three year-year graduation rates average in the low 20 percent range, with many colleges graduating far fewer than this average. In 2009, the last year for which the federal government has reported data, close to 400 community colleges had graduation rates of less than 15 percent. For the minority of students [...]
Government the Job Killer
American Enterprise Institute president Author Brooks pens his list of the Top Ten Ways Government Kills Jobs in America. Unfortunately, the Obama administration appears to be on the wrong side of all ten of these issues, some of which include: regime uncertainty, high corporate taxes, high health insurance rates, trade restrictions and frivolous lawsuits. Here [...]
