Poverty

Joseph Vazquez | September 13, 2023

It takes a hefty amount of chutzpah for the ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows to continue covering up bad news that repeatedly makes Bidenomics look like the disaster it’s been for the U.S. economy.

The Hill reported Sept. 12 that the…

Joseph Vazquez | April 14, 2023

Insufferable New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman apparently didn’t think his strategy through before he tried to caricature Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as some kind of elitist.

Krugman’s latest drivel celebrated the…

Joseph Vazquez | March 15, 2021

The ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows were so caught up in the euphoria of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that they ignored Democrats had snuck tax hikes into the legislation.

Politico released an eye-opening…

Joseph Vazquez | January 26, 2021

The Washington Post tried to push propaganda that former President Donald Trump’s economy was terrible for minorities. One economist set the paper straight.

The Post’s story online was outrageously headlined, “The Trump economy left Black…

Joseph Vazquez | October 8, 2020

Wall Street veteran and Alpha Investor Editor Charles Mizrahi talked to MRC Business about his frustrations with the media’s leftist agenda using the coronavirus to attack American capitalism.

Talking heads like Financial Times…

Joseph Vazquez | September 17, 2020

Journalists can’t handle the truth. The Big Three excuses for evening news shows ignored three major pieces of economic news that happened between September 15 and September 16.

Median household income was “$68,703 in 2019, an…

Joseph Vazquez | June 3, 2020

The hypocrisy of mega-rich celebrities calling for reparations for slavery is astonishing.

Black Entertainment Television Founder Robert Johnson, as summarized by CNBC, said that the “U.S. government should provide $14 trillion…

In one of the richest counties in America, hundreds of cars line up for food assistance. It’s a scene repeated around the country. But mega-millionaire actor Robert De Niro wants the economy to stay shut down, warning of “a global…

Joseph Vazquez | April 28, 2020

The farcical New York Times dealt with the question of re-opening our coronavirus-devastated economy by stoking progressive alarmism about racial and economic “inequality.”

The Times published a preposterous story…

Sam Dorman | September 15, 2016

When it comes to covering the economy under President Obama, the broadcast networks have a habit of covering good economic news, but glossing over or ignoring bad economic news.

It turns out coverage of income and poverty data…

Julia A. Seymour | July 25, 2016

They call it a comeback.

It is true, the U.S. economy is no longer in the depths of what has been called “The Great Recession.” But, in many ways…

Sam Dorman | July 20, 2016

The 2016 Republican National Convention brought the radical, left-wing fringe out in Cleveland, and some of the groups’ ideas were downright ridiculous.

1. State-Run Media

In something that looked like an excerpt from Orwell…

Sam Dorman | January 7, 2016

When it comes to raising the minimum wage, networks minimize balance and maximize bias.

After a year of protests clamoring for a $15 minimum wage, Christian Science Monitor reported that 14 states and several cities…

Julia A. Seymour | September 21, 2015

Pope Francis is kicking off his American tour and attracting attention not just from Catholics, but the liberal news media that love everything the pope does that they agree…

Sarah Stites | August 6, 2015

Businessmen often get a bad rep in the news media, but that wasn’t the case in a Barron’s profile of a former CEO who now works to help former prisoners because of his Christian faith.

“Answering God’s…