Sending Potatoes to Idaho? How the Free Market Can Fight Poverty

(October 7) – Skepticism about capitalism and free markets is rising. A survey by the Harvard Institute of Politics found that a majority of 18-to-29-year-old Americans do not believe in modern capitalism at all. The persistence of deep poverty in an affluent nation may be one reason for this. It’s easy to doubt the wisdom of markets when 12.7 percent of American households lived without enough food last year.