On Friday, March 24, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh vetoed a new $15 minimum wage that would have been implemented by 2022. This makes passing the measure’s future in serious doubt since an override of the mayor’s veto requires 12 out of 15 city council members to vote against and already several who voted for the measure have decided not to support an override.

Last Tuesday, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) unveiled a new anti-poverty initiative called ‘A Better Way to Fight Poverty’ at an outdoor press conference in Washington D.C.'s Anacostia neighborhood, which is plagued by high poverty rates and crime.

Hillary Clinton wants you to think she’s just an average Joe. Well, actually, a little less than average. She wants you to think she’s downright impoverished. After a notable gaffe when she said that she and Bill were “dead broke” when they left the White House (a bald faced lie), Clinton, instead of doing the sensible thing and walking back her comments, doubled down on her poverty gambit.

This month, pundits from across the political spectrum are noting the 50th year of Lyndon Johnson's declaration of war on poverty. Liberals cite the good intentions of the programs, while Conservatives rue the trillions wasted on this failure and the massive growth of the federal bureaucracy it spawned (as I wrote about last year), but rarely do we do any self-examination. What do we do about it? We can't just be about pointing out that the war on poverty has failed. We have to offer solutions. I participated in an intriguing discussion group this morning that posed this very challenge.

A Modest Proposal to Save Children from The War on PovertyThe War on Poverty is fifty years old.  Observing the semi-centennial, liberals and conservatives are arguing if the hundreds of programs and the trillions of dollars have actually reduced poverty.  Most of the statics and fallacies are merely continuing propaganda for incompetently formulated federal programs – conservative and liberal.  What is certain and ingloriously ignored is the millions of children being neglected and destroyed by The War on Poverty.

In 1930, the unemployment rate among African Americans was lower than it was for whites. That's right, at the height of the Great Depression, blacks were more likely to be employed than whites. 1930 was also the last year that we saw that happen.

Stacey Calvin is a busy mom in suburban Atlanta whose passion is helping kids. When she isn’t watching her three kids or volunteering at their school, she works at a day care center on the other side of town.Stacey takes a combination of two buses and two trains for a nearly two-hour commute each way. She checked into moving closer to the job, but that neighborhood’s prices were too high.