John C. Weicher is a housing and economic policy scholar who has served as a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and held positions at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard on topics including wealth inequality and economic policy, often challenging prevailing narratives about income and wealth gaps.
The selection of Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as the Republican vice presidential nominee continues an odd and indeed unprecedented pattern so far in the 21st century. Seven of the eight major party vice presidential candidates have been the first people from their home states to be major party…
Jack Kemp frequently reminded me of Milton Friedman--I worked for Kemp at HUD for four years, and I studied economics at the University of Chicago for five. They were certainly different--the athlete turned politician and the distinguished economist and scholar--and while they are both often…
PRESIDENT BUSH VISITED the Housing and Urban Development headquarters--the first president to do so since LBJ--in June 2002 to announce a housing policy goal: 5.5 million more minority homeowners by the end of the decade. His motivation was the wide disparity between white and minority…
REMEMBER ALL THE NEWS STORIES and columns from last year about how the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer? Well, you can forget about them -- it isn't so.
REMEMBER ALL THE NEWS STORIES and columns from last year about how the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer? Well, you can forget about them -- it isn't so.