A multi-billion dollar federal program pays hardened adult criminals and runaway teens to live together in dormitory-like environments run by companies with lucrative contracts, leading to thousands of young people being hurt in recent years.
The Department of Labor’s Job Corps operates 131 facilities where low-income people ages 16 to 24 can live while being paid to gain a high school diploma and certification in trades like plumbing. Created in the 1960s, it has transformed into something between a prison and a college, gathering people from the margins of society and housing them in cinderblock dormitories where they fight, rape, and sell drugs to each other, data exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire shows.
More than 500 sexual assaults have been reported at Job Corps facilities in the last three years, including a male student climbing through a female student’s window and raping her as she slept, according to a source with knowledge of the program.
Inner-city 24-year-olds are housed with vulnerable 16-year-old dropouts, who are exploited by predators. Last year, a 16-year-old girl who identified as a transgender boy, and whom the Job Corps apparently enabled to be separated from her parents, was assigned to room with a 23-year-old man at the Glenmont Job Corps near Albany, New York. <a href="https://spotlightnews.com/news/crime/2024/08/27/student-charged-with-raping-transgender-male-at-glenmont-job-corps/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Demetrius Fair</a> allegedly intimidated his “roommate” into performing oral sex on him before pinning her to the bed and raping her.
Then there were 4,600 reported violent assaults and 8,000 drug-related incidents over the past three years, the source said. And those numbers likely significantly understate the reality, since a tolerance for criminal behavior is endemic to the culture and only the most severe incidents are recorded.
<a href="https://prh.jobcorps.gov/Exhibits/Exhibit%201-1%20Job%20Corps%20Eligibility%20Requirements.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eligibility requirements</a> say that only people on welfare or living in poverty are eligible for the Job Corps, that refugees and non-citizen parolees are eligible, and that “no individual shall be denied enrollment in Job Corps solely on the basis of contact with the criminal justice system, except for the disqualifying felony convictions of murder…, child abuse, or a crime involving rape or sexual assault.”
The program requires that applicants not be able to read at higher than an eighth grade level, saying they must be “unable to compute or solve problems… at a level necessary to function on the job, in the individual’s family, or in society,” or he must be homeless, a runaway, a high school dropout, or a victim of sex trafficking.
Staff are trained to tell applicants, “I see that you have (describe gang-related behavior, symbol, activity). Do you agree that if you are admitted to Job Corps, you will not (use/wear/display) (list behavior or symbols, etc.)?”
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According to local news articles, in 2024, 23-year-old <a href="https://www.rdrnews.com/news/local/suspect-arrested-for-sexual-assault-at-roswell-job-corps/article_15b32fdc-6fc0-11ef-8484-871e9325e954.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rudolfo Mesa</a> was charged with attempted criminal sexual penetration of a child for his alleged conduct at the Roswell, New Mexico campus. A teen girl was standing around a patio with two other girls when Mesa allegedly grabbed her by the wrist, exposed himself, and pushed her down. Mesa eventually pulled up his pants, told the girls “good night,” and walked away, according to the Roswell Daily Record. Mesa grinned in his mugshot.
That same year, a <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2024/01/16/pinellas-job-corps-teacher-fired-after-arrest-child-pornography-charges/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teacher</a> at the Pinellas County Job Corps in Florida, 54-year-old Ralph Kitzmiller, was charged with six counts of transmitting child pornography. At the Trapper Creek Job Corps in Montana, <a href="https://ravallirepublic.com/news/local/crime-courts/two-charged-sexual-assault-darby-trapper-creek-job-corps/article_2e5f30f4-7d07-11ef-b124-67e22794189c.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two “students</a>” allegedly teamed up to sexually assault someone in their room. Kodia Mashkiki Selt Hoskins, 18, and Kaden Anthony Canono, 19, were charged.
Also in 2024, 19-year-old <a href="https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/instagram-tip-leads-to-man-being-arrested-for-possession-of-child-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paxston Avery Allman</a>, a member of the Atterbury Job Corps in Indiana, was arrested for allegedly uploading child sexual abuse material.
Democrats have cast the Job Corps program in altruistic rhetoric about helping the marginalized become productive members of society. But participants have said that the clientele is so overwhelmingly toxic that well-intentioned participants are more likely to be dragged down.
On <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/10394c/i_went_to_job_corps_and_it_was_the_scariest_time/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reddit</a>, one resident of the Sierra Nevada Job Corps in Nevada said it “was the scariest time of my life,” with “so much harassment, knives, guns, gangs, rape, attacks, and more.”
“Most of the 16-18 year old were people from Juvi who were given a choice of juvenile detention or going to job corps… If someone said you did something, a mob of people would come beat the sh** out of you even if it wasn’t you,” he wrote. “We also had Samoans at the job corps, TONS of them! One was caught in the air conditioning ducts trying to get into another guys room during the night.”
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In December, a <a href="//www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/10445/t" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continuing resolution funding bill</a>, agreed to by Republican and Democrat appropriators, would have locked in $1.8 billion annually in funding for Job Corps through 2030, but the bill did not ultimately pass Congress. It incorporated a bill from Sen. Christopher Murphy (D-CT) that explicitly aimed to <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4512?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22%5C%22a+Job+Corps+graduate+may+remain+an+enrollee+and+a++resident+of+a+Job+Corps+campus+for+not%5C%22%22%7D&amp;s=4&amp;r=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tolerate more </a><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4512?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22%5C%22a+Job+Corps+graduate+may+remain+an+enrollee+and+a++resident+of+a+Job+Corps+campus+for+not%5C%22%22%7D&amp;s=4&amp;r=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">misbehavior</a> in the Corps, adding in a provision adding an appeals process to “an enrollee who has engaged in an activity which is a violation of the guidelines…remain enrolled in the program.”
The Job Corps pays students to attend, including $1,200 upon completion, and recruiters lure them in. The program is a bonanza for contractors, such as <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/05d0fd70-3b91-2efe-b533-5d973d1ea671-C/latest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Management &amp; Training Corp.</a> of Utah, which has raked in $200 million, <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/ffae81b7-8d4e-c9dc-555a-f0aa0d9adf7e-C/latest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adams and Associates Inc.</a> of Nevada, which took in $158 million, and <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/d5331d20-132d-eb3c-c3f4-8b7b29d46078-C/latest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Career Systems Development Corp.</a> of New York, which earned $82 million.
A source with knowledge of the situation said the Trump administration is closely examining the program, suggesting the $1.8 billion program&#8217;s 50-year run could be nearing an end, though contractors are likely to lobby to preserve the revenue stream.
In the 2010s, “Job Corps Fights” became a viral sensation on YouTube. A typical video was titled &#8220;Clearfield job corps punk a** n***a stole the homies bucket and ended up getting decked in the face.”
A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3GgBICeO5A" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CB</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3GgBICeO5A" target="_blank" rel="noopener">S investigation</a> from that time period obtained video of a student cutting lines of white powder on a textbook during class. The head of security at a Job Corps facility told CBS he was pressured not to report crimes, because doing so could jeopardize the contractor’s funding. A Job Corps “career adviser” told CBS that 85% of the “job placements” reported by the contractor were fake, existing only to trick Congress about the efficacy of the program, and to get bonuses for staff who hit targets. Another teacher said students wouldn’t show up to class, but were certified as welders anyway, potentially creating safety issues for anyone who hired the person.
An inspector general report found that Job Corps graduates often wound up in fast food jobs that did not require any “training.” GEDs can be obtained for free from public schools, and unions often offer free training in the trades.

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The results of the biggest experiment in Universal Basic Income (UBI) are in, and they&#8217;re not good.
Universal Basic Income is a welfare proposal embraced by progressive Democrats like Andrew Yang, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-does-andrew-yang-stand-issues-heres-josh-hammer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">popularized</a> the idea on the 2020 campaign trail.
The idea is the government gives every adult citizen free money unconditionally every month to meet their basic needs, which frees them up to start a business, stay home with their children, or invest in another goal.
In July, the National Bureau of Economic Research <a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32719/w32719.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analyzed</a> the biggest UBI program to date, which was run by two nonprofits. It was the &#8220;largest unconditional cash transfer program evaluated by a randomized controlled trial&#8221; ever done in the country, researchers said.
The program <a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-universal-basic-income-fails-universally-3107111/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave</a> $1,000 a month to 1,000 low-income individuals for three years. A control group of 2,000 people were given just $50 a month.
The average household income among participants, who were between the ages of 21 and 40, was $29,900, so with the extra money their income jumped by about 40%.
The result was that people <a href="https://www.openresearchlab.org/findings/key-findings-employment-and-income" target="_blank" rel="noopener">worked</a> less.
With an extra $1,000 hitting their bank accounts every month, recipients worked about 1.4 hours less per week. The romantic partners of recipients reduced their working hours by about the same amount.
The total individual income fell about $1,500 per year excluding the $1000, compared to the control group. For every one dollar received, total household income fell by at least 21 cents, and total individual income fell by at least 12 cents, not including the extra $1,000.
Labor market participation also dropped two percentage points among participants, the analysis found.
So what did participants do with their extra time?
Leisure time saw the biggest jump. Driving, errands, and self care saw smaller increases in time spent.
Participants spent less time searching for a job, taking care of children, and on self-improvement.
The results of the experiment are disastrous for supporters of UBI, who insist that low-income people would be disciplined in their use of a supplemental income, using it to climb out of poverty and invest in their future.
Back in 2019, &#8220;squad&#8221; member Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/6/12/18661492/rashida-tlaib-basic-income-cash-earned-income-tax-credit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> a bill to give every adult $3,000 a year even if they earn $0.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, <a href="https://www.aei.org/op-eds/kamala-harris-authored-what-could-be-the-most-expensive-bill-ever/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> a bill during the pandemic while she was a California senator that would have given $2,000 a month to every adult, and more for up to three children. A family of five would have raked in an eye-popping $10,000 a month under Harris&#8217; legislation.
In reality, without the pressure to earn that extra $1,000 a month — enough to pay rent in many areas — people simply worked less and spent more time relaxing, this experiment found.
The results of the UBI experiment also carry implications for the many welfare programs that conservatives have long <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/10/missouris-conservative-welfare-reform-law-should-be-a-national-model/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> as trapping people in poverty.

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It is easy to believe that the world is falling apart while watching the news. Climate change, political division, coups d&#8217;état, the global pandemic, Russia’s ruthless war on Ukraine, Hamas’ unjustifiable killings, and the Middle East careening toward widespread violence: all that can contribute to a rising sense of panic.
It may be worth stepping back, however, to get some perspective. It is the media’s incessant narrative that the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Fear demoralizes us, particularly when young, engenders terrible political decisions, and cripples our ability to aim up and to do better.
War is endlessly and eternally horrific, and it is understandable and even necessary that the conflicts of today fill our newspapers’ front pages. This can make us believe that we’re living through a time of unprecedented violence. Russia’s war indeed meant that battle deaths in <a href="https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GPI-2023-Web.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022</a> reached a high for this century, but they are still very low in historical terms. Last year 3.5 in 100,000 people died as a consequence of war, a proportion <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/conflict-deaths-per-100000-world-various-sources" target="_blank" rel="noopener">below</a> even the 1980s and far below the 20th century average of 30 per 100,000. The world has in fact become much more peaceful over recent decades and centuries, even though that may not seem obvious, given the barrage of news we constantly face.
Murder claims more lives than war across the world, killing <a href="https://genderdata.worldbank.org/indicators/vc-ihr-psrc-p5/?view=trend" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5.6 people</a> per 100,000 in 2020. This risk has also declined even since <a href="http://ihmeuw.org/67t4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1990</a>, and much more dramatically before then. <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rates-across-western-europe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Europe</a> saw 20-fold declines or more over the past centuries. The violent death rates in <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/ethnographic-and-archaeological-evidence-on-violent-deaths#share-of-violent-deaths-in-prehistoric-archeological-state-and-non-state-societies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pre-historic societies</a> were literally a magnitude — or two — higher.
This is all of course little consolation to those living amidst the world’s conflicts or to the families of murder victims. But the data matters when considering the risks and opportunities that lie before us, globally — and speaks to the problem with the constant barrage of contextless catastrophe and doom. Analysis of media content across 130 countries from 1970 to 2010 indicates that the emotional tone — the use of negative versus positive descriptions — has dramatically and consistently become more negative. Negativity sells, but it informs badly.
The same pattern characterizes climate change reporting. A pervasive and false apocalyptic narrative draws together every negative event — ignoring, almost entirely, the bigger picture. In recent months, for example, the case of fires has been highlighted, without indication that the <a href="https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/1686365682483548161" target="_blank" rel="noopener">burned global area has been declining</a> for decades, reaching the lowest ever last year. Likewise, deaths from droughts and floods make headlines, but we don’t hear that richer humans provisioned with better technology are far more resilient and able to handle disasters. Indeed, <a href="https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/1609568091846967306?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deaths from such climate-related disasters</a> have declined 50-fold over the past century. Climate-related disasters, therefore, consume an <a href="https://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/1687443963450728449" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ever-smaller part of society’s cumulative resources</a>.
The data show what we all fundamentally know: The world has improved dramatically over recent centuries. Life expectancy has more than doubled since 1900. Two centuries ago, almost everyone was illiterate. Now, almost everyone can read. In 1820, 90% of people existed in extreme poverty. Now it’s less than 10%. Indoor air pollution has declined dramatically, and its outdoor equivalent has also done so in rich countries. If we could all choose when to be born while having all the facts at hand, few would choose any other time before today. All this incontrovertible progress has been driven by ethical and responsible conduct, trust, well-functioning markets, the rule of law, scientific innovation, and political stability. We have to recognize, appreciate, and proclaim the value and comparative rarity of each of these, in our own countries and abroad.
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The constant barrage of negative stories may also lead us to imagine that our forward progress is about to end. However, the evidence at hand does not support this conclusion. The latest U.N. Climate Panel models indicate that the average person will be <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162520304157" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4.5 times</a> richer by the end of the century than today. Climate change will not wipe that out: It will merely slow progress, such that the average person will “only” be 4.34 times as rich. This may be a problem, but is by no means the end of the world.
Yet, fear pushes many to demand the diversion of hundreds of trillions of dollars to steer the global economy abruptly towards zero carbon emissions. Based on all models, a <a href="https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2010007823400031" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new, peer-reviewed study</a> shows the costs of doing so would be much greater than the benefits obtained, throughout this century, and far into the next. Ill-advised and unwarranted fearmongering can confuse and frighten us into accepting enormous costs in return for much smaller benefits.
We need to foster an environment that challenges fearmongering and promotes optimistic yet critical thinking and constructive discussion with regard to the future. We hope that our new Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) will be of aid in this regard, bringing people of good will and good sense together from around the world, to formulate and communicate a positive vision of the future.
To drive progress for the world’s poorest, we should similarly focus on efficient and well-documented policies with enormous benefits. Working with more than a hundred of the world’s top economists, one of us has helped <a href="https://copenhagenconsensus.com/halftime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identify the best solutions</a> to many of the world’s most insidious problems: basic tuberculosis treatment that will save a million people a year, land tenure reform that lets poorer people reap the benefits, education technology that can deliver three-times better learning outcomes, and more.
These policies don’t make for catchy headlines, but they can do immense good. In total, they would cost $35 billion per year, which is a minuscule fraction of spending on climate or the military. They would save an astounding 4.2 million lives and make the poorer half of the world $1.1 trillion richer every year.
If we stop being fear-driven, and instead look to the data and the bigger picture, we can see that the world is better than it was, is likely to get better still — and we have a responsibility to adopt the very best policies to move ahead.
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Bjorn Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus and visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. His latest book is “Best Things First.” 
Jordan B. Peterson is professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and author of “Maps of Meaning,” “12 Rules for Life” and “Beyond Order.”

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It&#8217;s time for your daily dose of Bidenomics — where the rules are made up and the points don&#8217;t matter.
In today&#8217;s lesson, we&#8217;ll learn how the U.S. poverty rate increasing for the first time in more than a decade is actually a sign of a booming economy or something.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, a whopping 12.4% of Americans lived in poverty in 2022. That&#8217;s up from 7.8% in 2021. In fact, it was the first increase in the U.S. poverty rate in 13 years.
That news comes as the Census also reported that the U.S. real median household income decreased by 2.3% to $74,580 in 2022. Meanwhile, year-over-year inflation rose 7.8%, <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/us-household-income-fell-2022-census-data-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per</a> Fox Business.
The Biden administration has long claimed that his policies are working and that his spending plans have juiced the American economy. Meanwhile, prices have increased <a href="https://x.com/TimMeadsUSA/status/1704138531386323270?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 17%</a> he took office.
In August, inflation continued to tick upward.
In a statement given to Townhall.com, Job Creators Network President and CEO Alfredo Ortiz said, &#8220;This accelerating inflation, which is nearly twice the Federal Reserve&#8217;s target rate, is another Bidenomics blow to ordinary Americans and small businesses dealing with rapidly rising prices that are lowering their real wages and living standards for two and a half years.&#8221;
Indeed, as <a href="https://rollcall.com/2023/08/02/voters-just-arent-buying-bidenomics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained recently</a> by David Winston, the president of The Winston Group and a GOP adviser, just about everything is more expensive than it was on the day Biden took office.
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Biden&#8217;s solution, Winston correctly points out,  has been &#8220;trying to dress up central planning as America First.&#8221;
The current president even tried to sell his economic agenda as &#8220;BABA&#8221;— Building a Better America. As previously discussed, BABA sounds similar to former President Donald Trump&#8217;s MAGA — Make America Great Again, but like most phony imitations, it has proven to be a crappy product that falls apart under the slightest bit of pressure.
BABA didn&#8217;t really click with the American people, so now he&#8217;s trying to sell his vision for the country as Bidenomics.
It&#8217;s been a great success for America, just ask him.
Whatever he calls it, the results are the same: The American people are worse off today than they were four years ago. The proof is in the pudding — that <a href="https://www.foodandwine.com/news/snack-prices-rising-2022-oreo-mondelez-kraft#:~:text=%22The%20products%20include%20varieties%20of,percent%2C%22%20CNN%20Business%20wrote." target="_blank" rel="noopener">now costs more money</a>, evidently.
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MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – AUGUST 15: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to guests at Ingeteam Inc., an electrical equipment manufacturer, on August 15, 2023 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Biden used the opportunity to speak about his “Bidenomics” economic plan on the one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

Poverty Rate Increases For First Time In Over A Decade: Bidenomics!

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The wealthy enclave of Highland Park, Illinois, roughly 25 miles north of Chicago, had plans to host a “poverty simulation event” in which the participants could increase their “understanding and awareness of what it is like to live in poverty” — at a country club that was <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-poverty-simulation-highland-park-country-club-canceled-20230907-2voddjiukbdsvc2ybll3wrvihq-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">purchased</a> by the city and now serves as Highland Park’s senior center.
The heavily Democratic city — which gave Joe Biden over 80% of its vote in 2020 — stated on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HighlandParkIL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> it would join the Alliance for Human Services, Family Focus, Moraine Township, and the Highland Park Community Foundation to host the simulation on September 9 for two and a half hours at the Highland Park Country Club.
“Participants in this immersive experience will begin to experience what a ‘month’ in poverty feels like,” the city stated. “Participants are put into situations in which they do not have enough resources and are forced to make difficult choices that can negatively impact them and their families. The outcome is increased awareness of the need for resources to support those living in poverty to create a more resilient health, human, and education sector in our local area. Participation is free, but registration is required.”
The city was harshly criticized by some for the idea. “Wow. The privilege here is just beyond words. What a slap in the face to all of those who are struggling, especially in today’s economy,” one commenter stated.
“I have to echo the tone-deafness of this. Held at a country club of all places,” another commenter added, according to <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/highland-park-cancels-poverty-simulation-event-due-to-public-feedback/3223132/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC Chicago</a>. “You&#8217;re literally holding an event to make rich people feel good about themselves and further stigmatize the experiences of people in poverty. It&#8217;s not even a fundraiser? A food drive? Something that would give anything back to the people whose experiences you&#8217;re pretending to care about?”
After the criticism was leveled, the city canceled the event.
In 2013, the city enacted an ordinance banning semiautomatic weapons and large-capacity magazines. On July 4, 2022, a 21-year-old gunman <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/victims-july-4th-highland-park-parade-shooting/story?id=86205738" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> seven people at an Independence Day parade in the city using a semiautomatic rifle. He fired 83 shots.

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Affluent Heavily Democratic City Slammed After Planning 'Poverty Simulation Event'

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The American medical establishment markets itself as a champion for all patients’ dignity and pretends to be an ally of marginalized women. But in its passionate support of abortion, in the very arguments it uses to justify that support, the medical establishment is actually upholding a destructive, defeatist, and racist philosophy.
In the wake of the Dobbs decision that removed federal abortion protections and returned power to the states to make their own abortion laws, the president of the American Medical Association published a statement <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/dobbs-ruling-assault-reproductive-health-safe-medical-practice">condemning</a> the Supreme Court decision as an immoral intrusion of government into the private affairs of patients and their physicians. In July of 2022, a few weeks after the Dobbs decision, the AMA published a follow-up <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/population-care/access-abortion-and-women-s-health-what-research-shows">article</a> on their website, arguing that abortion bans would have dire effects on women’s overall health. In October of that same year, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article calling abortion access a <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2209737">racial justice issue</a>. These publications from medical elites reveal a racist mentality and insidiously devalue human life, especially the lives of those facing genuine hardship.
In his statement, AMA President Jack Resneck called the Dobbs decision an “assault on reproductive health” and “safe medical practice.”
In one noteworthy section of his statement, the president asserted: “Access to legal reproductive care will be limited to those with the sufficient resources, circumstances, and financial means to do so—exacerbating health inequities by placing the heaviest burden on patients from Black, Latinx, Indigenous, low-income, rural and other historically disadvantaged communities that already face numerous structural and systemic barriers to accessing health care.”
In the AMA’s follow up article posted a couple weeks after Dr. Resneck gave his statement, AMA contributing news writer Tanya Albert Henry pointed to research conducted by University of California San Francisco faculty that suggests that women seeking abortions who are denied those abortions face worse health and economic outcomes than women not denied abortions. The San Francisco researchers conducted a five-year study of 956 women who wanted abortions, 231 of whom were prevented from getting abortions by state laws. While the study looked at multiple areas of life, including physical and mental health, Henry’s article placed much emphasis on the women’s economic situations. According to Henry, the study found that women who did not receive abortions were more likely to raise their children alone, “live in households that drop below the poverty level,” and “lack enough money to pay for food, housing and transportation.” Diana Greene Foster, the director of the research, said that “Access to abortion enables women to have children at a time when they have more resources – financial and emotional — to devote to their children.”
The heads of the AMA think they are promoting human rights and protecting their patients from injustice. But there’s just one problem. Ending a pregnancy ends a human life. Even if you reject the scientific fact that human life <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/first-trimester-babies-complex/?gad=1&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwgqejBhBAEiwAuWHioGNykDgEAOmIjrEViBsMinTWEapZVxIK2uPKBgcYeqjKEMd7ddWY-BoC0lkQAvD_BwE">begins</a> at fertilization, when an embryo with unique DNA is created, there is no denying that the pregnancy, without interference, will result in the birth of a new human being. With that indisputable fact in mind, the AMA’s pro-abortion arguments take on a morally ghoulish character.
President Resneck thinks it a travesty that “black, Latinx” and “low income”women cannot access abortion as easily with Roe reversed. Resneck believes the world would be a better place if fewer black, Latino, and poor children were born. For him, being black and living in poverty is such a hard, miserable existence with so much suffering involved that it would be better to be killed in the womb than to endure that horrible fate.
Diana Foster and the other University of California San Francisco researchers share President Resneck’s mindset when it comes to poverty. They think that if mothers struggle financially while trying to raise their children, resulting in those children not always having their needs met, it would be better for those children not to have a chance at life at all.
These medical experts believe so strongly that systematic oppression is embedded in this country and cannot be overcome. For them, racism is ubiquitous and unavoidable. Poverty is inescapable. Children who come from hard backgrounds can never rise above their past. Giving birth to them is dooming them to misery. The kind, humane thing to do is to cut their lives short. This thinking is hideous. Medical experts, who know abortion ends a life, should not be advocating for the termination of any woman’s pregnancy, no matter her race, no matter her situation. Every human being, from the moment of conception, deserves the same respect. Every human life, once created, has a right to exist. No matter how many studies they conduct, medical experts have no right to assert that black or brown children or children from poor families are any less capable of making a better future for themselves than any other children.
The authors who wrote the New England Journal of Medicine article linking abortion and racial justice make a different point, but it’s a point just as defeatist as the AMA’s arguments. They point out the high maternal mortality rate among black women and argue that abortion is safer for these women than carrying their babies to term. In other words, because there are parts of the country where certain black women do not have access to the potentially life-saving care they need during pregnancy, we need to ensure that they can abort their babies. Why is that the solution? Why not invest resources into researching and addressing the causes of pregnancy complications and maternal mortality among black women so that their lives and their babies’ lives can be saved?
The AMA and the New England Journal of Medicine are not wrong to point out the real hardships that many pregnant women face in this country. But their insistence that impoverished and marginalized women will be better off if they can abort their babies is racist and classist. These leading medical institutions should not be focusing an ounce of their energy on fighting the Dobbs decision. Instead, they should be working to improve maternal medicine so that pregnant women have better health outcomes. 
Emmie Lo is a writer and Latin teacher currently living in Jacksonville, Florida. You can read her personal blog at <a href="https://blindgirldreaming.blogspot.com/">blindgirldreaming.blogspot.com</a> and follow her on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/Teabooksgirl">@teabooksgirl</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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More than 25% of <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/canada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canadians</a> support allowing medically <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/euthanasia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assisted suicide</a> in cases such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/homelessness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">homelessness</a> and poverty, according to a <a href="https://researchco.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Tables_MAiD_CAN_05May2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> released earlier this month by Research Co.
Assisted suicide, sometimes called medical assistance in dying, has been increasingly deregulated in Canada over the past several years. The practice is currently available only for adults with severe medical conditions despite recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canada-moves-toward-assisted-suicide-for-minors-critics-erupt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moves</a> to increase access for minors.
When asked whether assisted suicide should be made available in the case of homelessness, 11% of survey respondents said they “strongly agree,” and 17% said they “moderately agree.” Similar shares believe the same with respect to poverty: 11% of respondents “strongly agree” that destitution can serve as grounds for assisted suicide, while 16% “moderately agree.”
The poll comes as multiple accounts of residents who turn to assisted suicide because of their dire financial straits capture worldwide attention. Amir Farsoud, who receives government assistance for his chronic back pain and was informed that the home he shared with two other people was listed for sale, applied for medical assistance in dying to avoid homelessness and received approval from one physician. Strangers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canadian-man-changes-mind-about-assisted-suicide-after-good-samaritans-step-in" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fundraised</a> more than $44,000 online when his story made international news, prompting him to change his mind.
Critics of the procedure <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/holds-autonomy-as-the-highest-virtue-christian-physician-reacts-as-canada-erodes-limits-on-assisted-suicide-for-teens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argue</a> that governments with socialized medical systems have clear incentives to promote the practice rather than funding treatment for certain patients, thereby overlooking the innate value of human beings and their fundamental right to life.
Nearly half of the respondents also said that mental illness should render one available to receive assisted suicide. Some 16% said they “strongly agree,” while 27% said they “moderately agree,” outweighing the share of respondents who either “moderately disagree” or “strongly disagree.”
Canada indeed implemented amendments to the nation’s criminal code that would increase the availability of assisted suicide such that a citizen with only a “mental illness” can request euthanasia starting next year, whereas the practice was previously limited to people with serious physical illnesses. “You do not need to have a fatal or terminal condition to be eligible for medical assistance in dying,” according to a <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/medical-assistance-dying.html#a2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">webpage</a> published by the nation’s government.
Another question on the survey asked whether parents should receive criminal penalties for helping their son or daughter secure assisted suicide. Some 51% favored sanctions ranging from “a fine but no time in prison” to “a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment,” while 24% said they should receive “no penalty at all,” and 25% said they were “not sure.”
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Canada does not explicitly <a href="https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/page-33.html#h-119953" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allow</a> minors to pursue assisted suicide; the nation’s government, however, has <a href="https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/other-autre/article12/p3a.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asserted</a> that “children’s decision-making about health care issues occurs within a complicated legal framework.” The doctrine of the “mature minor,” for example, “allows children who are sufficiently mature to make their own treatment decisions.” Laws related to parental consent and “mature minor” status vary between provinces.
The Netherlands, on the other hand, recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dutch-government-makes-life-termination-available-for-children-as-young-as-one-year-old" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> an expansion in the availability of “life termination” for children between one and twelve years of age. Officials said the new policy only concerns “a small group of terminally ill children” whose “palliative care options are not sufficient to relieve their suffering and who are expected to die in the foreseeable future.”

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In the spring of 2022, the city of Portland, Maine, wrote that its financial budget was in a &#8220;dire situation&#8221; due to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maines-largest-city-in-dire-situation-due-to-unprecedented-volume-of-migrants-arriving-from-southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">influx of individuals arriving</a> from the southern border, warning that social services were being strained.
Now, Portland is asking for <a href="https://www.portlandmaine.gov/856/Support-Asylum-Seekers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tax-deductible donations</a> to help provide housing to hundreds, if not thousands, of illegal aliens. Last week, city officials announced that the Portland Expo Center will be turned into overnight housing for these &#8220;asylum seekers&#8221; who have entered the U.S. beginning on Monday night.
&#8220;The intent is to open [the expo] and offer complete and total wrap-around services that are targeted to the population that will be staying here,&#8221;  Kristen Dow, Portland&#8217;s Director of the Department of Health and Human Services, <a href="https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/housing/portland-expo-to-open-monday-as-emergency-shelter-for-asylum-seekers-community/97-f18d0660-4ebe-4867-8379-4181dda44c80" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement.
The &#8220;targeted population&#8221; includes many individuals who first enter the country illegally and then declare asylum once on U.S. soil as is technically allowed. They then are given a court hearing date sometime in the distant future to determine whether or not they actually qualify for asylum. After doing that, they often hitch a ride all the way up to Maine, where a litany of free services awaits them.
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By Dow&#8217;s estimates, 270 individuals will arrive for their first night&#8217;s stay on Monday. That is not an all-encompassing number to describe the circumstances in Portland. Since January 1 of 2023 alone, 1,000 individuals from the southern border have arrived in the city which has less than <a href="https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS998US998&amp;q=portland,+maine+population&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgUeLQz9U3SDbJLtMyTEm20s9JTU9MrrTKyU9OLMnMz4svLgHSxSWZyYk58UWp6SChgvyC0hywbBejLRdcvxAF-kuKjAso0Z-cFp9Hhv5FrFIF-UUlOYl5KToKuYmZeakKCEkALo0MAxwBAAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj-noiaj6D-AhWgkokEHUwhBSgQth96BAgbEAI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">70,000 year-round residents</a>.
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&#8220;This is a very dire situation, and the opening of the expo is the last overnight overflow space that we as city staff have available to open and operate,&#8221; Interim City Manager Danielle West also told Newscenter Maine last week. &#8220;We are truly beyond our capacity to be able to continue to provide compassionate care for those seeking shelter.&#8221;
The ExpoCenter will be open from now until August, specifically for illegal aliens who want to reap the rewards.
Portland still can&#8217;t afford to pay for this care, so instead, its government is asking for charity.
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&#8220;The City will use any monetary donations received to provide shelter/housing assistance and basic human necessities,&#8221; a notice from the city <a href="https://www.portlandmaine.gov/856/Support-Asylum-Seekers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> online.
Of course, one can reasonably suspect that as the freebies continue, so will the illegal aliens. Offering food, shelter, and more for free only incentives illegal aliens to travel to the city. New York City is <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=new+york+city+free+for+all+dailywire&amp;rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS998US998&amp;ei=PGw0ZOe9JNGPwbkP7KS30Aw&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjny77EjqD-AhXRRzABHWzSDcoQ4dUDCBA&amp;uact=5&amp;oq=new+york+city+free+for+all+dailywire&amp;gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAzIHCCEQoAEQCjIHCCEQoAEQCjIHCCEQoAEQCjIHCCEQoAEQCjoKCAAQRxDWBBCwAzoFCCEQoAE6BQghEKsCOggIIRAWEB4QHToKCCEQFhAeEA8QHUoECEEYAFChAliUDmDLDmgCcAF4AYABlAOIAdcRkgEJMC40LjUuMC4xmAEAoAEByAEIwAEB&amp;sclient=gws-wiz-serp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">experiencing a similar problem</a>.
Ultimately, Portland — and the rest of the U.S. for that matter — will find itself a non-stop &#8220;dire situation&#8221; so long as President Joe Biden&#8217;s border policies are in place, which are really driving this historic illegal immigration crisis.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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A Canadian man has changed his mind about ending his life through medically assisted suicide after an outpouring of support from good Samaritans.
Amir Farsoud said he is no longer considering euthanasia after strangers who were moved by his story donated more than $60,000 to help him, which will allow him to avoid <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/homelessness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">homelessness</a>.
“I’m a different person,” Farsoud <a href="https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/11/16/ontario-medically-assisted-death-support/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Toronto-based CityNews, which first <a href="https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/10/13/medical-assistance-death-maid-canada/">shared</a> his story. “The first time we spoke, I had nothing but darkness, misery, stress and hopelessness. Now I have all the opposite of those things.”
Farsoud, 54, lives with agonizing chronic back pain due to an accident several years ago. During the worst bouts of pain, he was “crying like a 5-year-old and not sleeping for days in a row,” he said. He also takes depression and anxiety medication.
He is unable to work and lives on checks from Ontario&#8217;s government disability assistance program. He felt there was no way to avoid homelessness after the St. Catharine&#8217;s, Ontario, rooming house he shares with two other people was listed for sale.
Farsoud had applied for Medical Aid in Dying (MAID), Canada&#8217;s legal euthanasia program. He had gotten one doctor to sign off on his application and needed one more doctor to approve it while he waited the mandatory 90-day waiting period. He expected to be eligible as early as this month.
&#8220;I don’t want to die but I don’t want to be homeless more than I don’t want to die,&#8221; Farsoud previously told CityNews. “I know, in my present health condition, I wouldn’t survive it anyway. It wouldn’t be at all dignified waiting, so if that becomes my two options, it’s pretty much a no-brainer.”
His story deeply moved a stranger, a Canadian woman named Effie, who set up a GoFundMe for him, hoping to raise enough money to convince him not to end his life. The fundraiser had <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/np76w-choosing-to-live?qid=488fbd8c769c687c460d682400888fd4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled in</a> $60,289 as of Wednesday afternoon.
Now, Farsoud is no longer seeking to move forward with his assisted suicide.
“I honestly thought by December I wouldn’t be here. So no, I certainly did not envision this by any stretch of the imagination,” Farsoud said.
Farsoud said he has also received more than just money.
“There has been this amazing outpouring of love and support, emotional support. There’s been therapists that have gotten in touch to do like online or on the phone therapy,” he said.
Farsoud said he hasn&#8217;t felt this grateful and happy since he was 12 when his family immigrated to France from Iran to escape the revolution.
“I have felt like this one time in my life. When we left Iran and got to France, we left the plane and I was a kid, but I fell to my knees and kissed the tarmac, because no one was going to shoot me, no demonstrations, no army, no burning buildings. I’m going to get up in the morning knowing I wouldn’t be dead that night,” explained Farsoud. “The way I feel or have been feeling since this happened, that’s the closest I’ve come [to that],” he said.
Still, Farsoud has not ruled out using MAID in the future, as he expects his chronic back pain to become too painful to bear at some point in the future. For now though, he is not planning for it.
“It’s amazing what an act of kindness can do,” he said. “I wouldn’t have thought it possible the kindness and humanity and compassion I saw, I didn’t think it existed anymore. It does.”

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The more liberal a state is, the more likely it is to be home to income inequality, according to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Wire</a> analysis of newly-released Census data.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-became-home-to-a-record-breaking-number-of-new-yorkers-in-august/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a>, Connecticut, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/study-california-sees-second-highest-rate-of-young-wealthy-professionals-leave-state-in-2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> had the biggest gulf between rich and poor, according to a Census Bureau yardstick called the <a href="https://www.census.gov/topics/income-poverty/income-inequality/about/metrics/gini-index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gini Index</a> that measures how far an area is from “perfect equality (where everyone receives an equal share).” Utah, Indiana, and South Dakota had the least inequality. The Census Bureau&#8217;s detailed annual population study, the American Community Survey, was <a href="https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/news/data-releases.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> September 15, and covered 2021.
Although liberals prioritize reducing the &#8220;gaps&#8221; between people — known more recently as promoting &#8220;equity&#8221; — a statistical regression shows that the more liberal a state is, the more likely it is to have inequality.
&#8220;This shows that all of the things that [Democrats] complain about actually come from Democrat policies,&#8221; said David Gordon, a conservative political consultant. &#8220;When they complain about poor outcomes for blacks, for example, that is primarily in the areas where they have governed for generations, to catastrophic effect.&#8221;
The Daily Wire focused on the 10 most-liberal and 10 most-conservative states by selecting those where one party controlled the legislature and governor&#8217;s mansion, and ordering them by the share of state legislature <a href="https://www.ncsl.org/Portals/1/Documents/About_State_Legislatures/State-Partisan-Composition-Table-June-2022.pdf">seats</a> controlled by that party. Hawaii was the most liberal state, with 93% Democrats in its legislature, but it was excluded because it is not part of the mainland and is subject to unique economic forces.
That left Rhode Island, with an 87%-Democrat legislature, as the most Democratic state, followed by California, New York, and Delaware. The most conservative state was South Dakota, with a 90%-Republican legislature, followed by Wyoming, North Dakota, and Idaho.
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The stratification of blue states compared to red ones is also evident in other measures, including race. When it comes to median income, Rhode Island, New York, and Connecticut had the largest gap between whites and Hispanics. Six of the 10 blue states had larger gaps between foreign-born residents and whites than every red state.
In California, the average foreign-born resident made only a third of what native-born Californians earned. By contrast, in Idaho, the average black resident made 85% as much as the average white person, the closest thing to racial equity of any state. In Indiana, Hispanics made close to 90% as much as whites.
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<h3>Conservative states feel less poverty</h3>
Popularly-repeated statistics that show red states as being more impoverished – and the Census’s main poverty measure does show that – are highly misleading because the Census does not adjust for an area’s cost-of-living, and instead sets a uniform dollar amount as the poverty line for every family of a given size. This makes it next to useless, given the housing, food and other costs in an area like New York City compared to an area like rural Alabama.
The Census Bureau has another metric, called the Supplemental Poverty Measure, which partially addresses this problem. It adjusts for the cost of housing in an area, but not for other localized items. It also counts welfare benefits as income. By this measure, conservative states have less poverty than blue states. The four states with the lowest poverty are also the four most-conservative states in the country. And California, the second-most-liberal state, has by far the highest poverty rate, at more than 18%.
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<h3>Quality of life</h3>
What matters more than the total amount of one’s income is the lifestyle it affords.
Median incomes are higher in blue states, but so are rent and home price. Overall, blue-staters spent a larger portion of their household income on housing. Almost no one in red states spent more than $3,000 a month on housing, while it is not uncommon in blue states. Except for Utah and New Mexico, every blue state had higher housing costs than every red state. Blue-staters also paid up to six times more in real estate taxes.
Families of every race in conservative states are more likely than their blue-state counterparts to own their homes rather than rent, and they are also more likely to have more rooms in their home.
Conservative-state residents also own more vehicles and are less likely to have long commutes.
The crunch for housing in blue states, which is driven up by having more people than available homes, may be explained partly by blue states’ load of immigrants. There is a close correlation between how many <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-airports-among-fastest-growing-in-u-s-could-suggest-scale-of-migrant-flights-in-2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">immigrants</a> there are in a state, and how hard it is for Americans to afford a home there.
&#8220;It&#8217;s basic economics. We&#8217;re raising the demand for housing without raising the supply,&#8221; said Gordon.
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<h3>Education</h3>
Despite liberals’ professed support of the public school system, and the Democrat Party’s close relationship with teachers unions, the more liberal a state, the more likely parents are to send their kids to private school rather than public schools. Rhode Island and New York, two of the three most-liberal states, topped the list at more than 26%.
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The unequal nature of blue states was also visible in education. Every blue state had higher shares of people with graduate degrees than every red state. But blue states also had some of the highest shares of people who did not even graduate high school.
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<h3>Family</h3>
Blue-state denizens are more likely to never marry, and more likely to be cohabitating with a significant other rather than married. Among children, more are adopted in red states. However, divorce rates are similar among both groups.
When people in liberal states do marry, it comes later in life. In every liberal state, the median <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/great-news-this-fathers-day-marriage-rate-going-up-census-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">marriage</a> age for men was higher than every conservative state. It was about 32 in New York and California compared to 27 in Utah.
<h3>Best and worst</h3>
Among the most conservative states in America, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota, and North Dakota excelled by most measures (and also were the most conservative of red states), while Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Indiana often lagged in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-these-places-most-kids-dont-live-with-their-dad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social indicators</a>.
The data also highlight how New Mexico – the seventh-most-liberal state based on composition of its state legislature – has emerged as, by many measures, one of the most-troubled states in the union. It eclipses West Virginia for the highest percentage of residents on welfare. It also has the highest percent of residents below the poverty line.
It had the second-highest portion of residents who lack a high school diploma, and by far the lowest median income for foreign-born residents of any state.

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the world’s <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-29/india-s-adani-is-first-asian-to-become-world-s-third-richest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fifth-richest man</a>, thinks that Communist China should be praised for the way it has handled poverty.
New York Times Magazine columnist David Wallace-Wells, the author of “The Uninhabitable Earth,” opined that progress on poverty around the globe “has been really remarkable.” Asserting that said progress reflected “progress in China,” he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opinion/environment/bill-gates-climate-change-report.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> Gates if the trend toward eradicating poverty would continue since China has “sort of finished eradicating real poverty.”
“If you’re allowed to say the truth about things in China, they’ve done a very good job,” Gates responded. “They’re now a middle-income country, in fact, one of the wealthier middle-income countries.”
In 2018, an <a href="https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2019/07/23/could-chinas-financial-repression-be-good-for-growth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> written by a professor of economics at Peking University, Beijing and a then PhD scholar at Peking University surmised that China had initially used a repressive financial policy in order to stimulate the economy.
The article stated that the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) was still guiding commercial banks’ settings of deposit and lending rates, adding that “repressive financial policies have not stopped China from achieving rapid economic growth,” but that “economic growth has decelerated and systemic financial risks have escalated sharply.”
In March 2021, NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/03/05/974173482/what-chinas-total-victory-over-extreme-poverty-looks-like-in-actuality" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that extreme poverty was defined by China as making less than $2.30 per day in contrast to the World Bank&#8217;s suggested poverty line of making less $5.50 per day for China&#8217;s upper middle-income category.
“China still has around 13% of its population falling below that line, or close to 200 million people,&#8221; the World Bank&#8217;s Martin Raiser pointed out.
NPR correspondent John Ruwitch, who covers Chinese affairs, added, “But for Xi Jinping, proclaiming victory over extreme poverty is propaganda gold.”
In February 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56194622" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that China had eliminated extreme poverty the previous year.
“According to the current criteria, all 98.99 million poor rural population have been taken out of poverty, and 832 poverty-stricken counties as well as 128,000 villages have been removed from the poverty list,” he stated.
Some critics of China have pointed out that China’s campaign to eliminate poverty ignored a root cause of rural poverty: poor rural education. Some research has shown a school drop rate of up to 63% for rural students before the end of high school, <a href="https://thediplomat.com/2021/09/how-successful-was-chinas-poverty-alleviation-drive/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Diplomat.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/generation-z" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Generation Z</a> is four times more likely than past generations to require financial assistance from family members when buying their first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/housing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">home</a>.
According to data from luxury real estate firm <a href="https://www.rubyhome.com/">RubyHome</a> obtained by The Daily Wire, 79% of members of Generation Z received financial help from their parents when buying their first property — a substantial increase from the 19% of Baby Boomers and Silent Generation members who reported the same.
“When combined, data show that adults under 45 are more than three times as likely as people 45 and older to say their parents gave them a property outright or paid the entire deposit,” the RubyHome analysis summarized.
Prices for single family homes have soared over the past two years. In the second quarter of 2022, the median sale price of a home in the United States was $440,300, according to <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS">data</a> from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, marking a 36% rise from $322,600 in the second quarter of 2020.
Younger Americans have been particularly impacted by the dismal real estate market. An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/half-of-millennials-cant-afford-to-rent-a-one-bedroom-apartment-in-californias-biggest-cities">analysis</a> from Filterbuy indicated that at least half of Millennials — defined by the company as those between 24 and 39 years old — are unable to afford a one-bedroom apartment in many major American cities. For the metropolitan area surrounding Los Angeles, California, median wages are $36,649 while the annual wage needed to rent a one-bedroom apartment is $72,560.
“The combination of rising rents and stagnant wages has been a challenge for Americans of all stripes, but certain groups have been more disadvantaged by this state of affairs than others,” Filterbuy explained. “Even well-off households are feeling pressure, as rising real estate costs price would-be buyers out and keep them competing for space in the rental market — and as they spend more on rent, they have a harder time saving for homeownership.”
Another recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/young-americans-dont-see-a-point-in-saving-for-retirement-in-a-post-covid-world">study</a> from financial services company Fidelity shows that the economic turmoil of the last two years has disrupted many Americans’ savings behavior. Roughly 55% of “Next Gen” — which the study defines as Americans between the ages of 18 and 35 — said that they placed their retirement plans on hold as COVID rapidly spread through the United States, while 45% do not “see a point in saving until things return to normal.” Roughly 39% of young adults therefore “plan to retire later.”
The dire financial straits impacting many members of Generation Z reflect a broader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-decline-of-the-american-family-shown-in-4-statistics">social decline</a> in the United States. Last year, the population of the United States <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-2021-americas-population-grew-at-slowest-rate-since-founding-of-the-nation">grew</a> at its slowest pace since the nation’s founding, according to <a href="https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/12/us-population-grew-in-2021-slowest-rate-since-founding-of-the-nation.html">data</a> from the Census Bureau. Among other reasons for the decline, the agency cited “decreasing fertility” and “increasing mortality due to an aging population,” as well as the onset of COVID. Meanwhile, only 17.8% of America’s 130 million households <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/only-18-of-american-households-are-families-with-married-parents">feature</a> married parents with children — a decline from over 40% in 1970.
Over the past several months, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has repeatedly criticized the notion that the world is at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/overpopulation-fears-give-way-to-another-bogeyman-a-fertility-slump">risk of overpopulation</a>.
“I think one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birthrate and the rapidly declining birthrate,” Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-warns-civilization-will-crumble-without-people-having-more-kids">explained</a> at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit last year. “And yet, so many people, including smart people, think that there are too many people in the world and think that the population is growing out of control. It’s completely the opposite. Please look at the numbers — if people don’t have more children, civilization is going to crumble, mark my words.”

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