Economics

Unemployed in the New Year

Lillian Daniel 1-21-2011

People tend to approach each New Year with optimism, but the latest news about unemployment was not particularly encouraging.

Young Evangelicals Must Champion Immigration Reform

Matthew Soerens 1-19-2011

In some ways, 2010 was a great year for evangelicals who have longed for the church to stand for just and compassionate immigration reform.

Human Trafficking and the Food We Buy

Brigitte Gynther 1-11-2011

January 11 is recognized around the world as Human Trafficking Awareness Day.

The Truth of Tax Transparency Will Set Us Free

Melanie Weldon-Soiset 1-04-2011

It's started. I saw my first ad for a tax help company on TV yesterday, and I received an email recently about using an online service to settle my bill with the government.

Four Reasons Not to Mess with Payroll Taxes

LaVonne Neff 12-15-2010

Now that President Obama's people have sent out glowing press releases about how wonderful the proposed tax agreement is (http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/12/10/a-win-women-mothers-and-

Moral Measure of a Tax Plan

Chuck Collins 12-14-2010

In 2010, the moral measure of tax policy choice is: Does it further concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few?

Millions More for Millionaires

Jennifer Kottler 12-09-2010

I have to admit that the estate tax is one of my favorite things to rant about.

A Season for Holy Mischief and Divine Conspiracy

Shane Claiborne 12-07-2010

Critiquing the thick irony of the Christmas season is fair.

President Obama Should Have Fought This One

Jim Wallis 12-07-2010

He should have fought this one. The richest 2 percent of the country just got an extension of tax cuts they didn't need at great cost to us all.

What Does God Think of Economic Equality?

Aaron Taylor 12-06-2010

In American evangelical circles, there's an idea that goes something like this: progressive taxation = socialism, and socialism = s

Give Smart: Three Tips to Make Donations Count

LaVonne Neff 12-02-2010

A lot of us don't have as much disposable income as we had two or three years ago. Some of us have a lot less. But Christmas is coming, and we still want to give.

The Story of One Unemployed Man

Valerie Elverton Dixon 12-02-2010

He has been working since he was a teenager. He graduated from high school, went to college, graduated, got a good job with a good company, married, had children, and bought a house.

Speak Up for Economic Sanity

Elizabeth Palmberg 11-29-2010

This year Congress finally passed reform that can get some of Wall Street's most damaging and harebrained schemes under control -- but only if the ground-level regulations written to implement the

Buy Nothing Day as Advent Activism Against the Demon Mammon

Shane Claiborne 11-26-2010

As per usual, on Friday, we had all sorts of Buy Nothing Day festivities (check out the video here). But that's not what I want to talk about. I read recent posts on consumerism and Buy Nothing Day by Eugene Cho and Rachel Anderson here on God's Politics, and I admire the optimism and nuanced critiques. But this past weekend folks around the world stared in embarrassment, pity, and horror as people killed each other for bargains –- literally.