Debate: What To Do About Poverty | Learn Liberty

"Debate: What To Do About Poverty" by @LearnLiberty► Get Learn Liberty updates in your inbox!http://LearnLiberty.org/subscribeThis Learn Liberty debate presents arguments for and against more government assistance to help the poor in the United States. Prof. Steven Horwitz argues that the government has created too many problems and that lifting government-imposed barriers to the poor will go a long way toward solving the problems of inequality in the United States. Prof. Jeffrey Reiman takes the view that government, while not perfect, will have a key role to play in creating better programs to help the poor. What do you think?* This debate was filmed in front of a live audience at the 2013 International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, DC► Learn Morehttp://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2011/06/markets-and-the-economic-condition-of-the-poor/ [article]: Steve Horwitz breaks down the economic condition of the poor and whether markets work to benefit the least advantagedhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/21/AR2007122101556.html [article]: Stephen Rose of the Washington Post presents a variety of evidence to show that the declining numbers of middle class Americans is mostly due to many of them getting richerhttp://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/poverty-is-easy-to-explain#axzz2r3R0qyri [article]: Walter E. Williams of The Foundation for Economic Education explains what poverty is and why there is poverty in the first placehttp://mises.org/daily/2526 [article]: Henry Hazlitt questions whether the government can truly reduce povertyhttp://www.ted.com/playlists/67/the_quest_to_end_poverty.html [video]: TED combines eight of their videos on different ideas of how to end povertyhttp://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21578665-nearly-1-billion-people-have-been-takenout-extreme-poverty-20-years-world-should-aim [article]: Jon Berkeley of The Economist explains that we are towards the end of poverty and explains what factors played out in this reduction► For more resources, transcripts, videos, and more visit:http://learnliberty.org/videos/debate-what-do-about-poverty► Like us on Facebook! http://facebook.com/LearnLiberty► Follow us on Twitter! http://twitter.com/LearnLiberty► Follow us again on Google+! http://bit.ly/1dwr50F► Watch more videos: http://LearnLiberty.org