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Affordable Housing
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass on the site of 49 units of affordable housing in Boyle Heights were she signed an executive directive to accelerate and lower the cost of building...
Red Tape
"Red tape" refers to bureaucratic procedures or regulations that are seen as overly complex, time-consuming, or burdensome. It is a metaphorical term derived from the practice of using red tape...
Monetary Policy
Monetary policy in the United States comprises the Federal Reserve's actions and communications to promote maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates--the economic goals the Congress has instructed...
Keynesian Economics
Keynesian economics is an economic theory and policy approach, which argues that in times of economic crises, increased government spending is essential to encourage economic growth. Additionally, during times of...
Distributive Justice
Anti-abortion demonstrators take part in the annual “March for Life” for the first time since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade abortion decision, in Washington, January 20, 2023....
Farm Subsidies
Farm subsidies are financial assistance programs or incentives provided by governments to agricultural producers. These subsidies are designed to support farmers and the agricultural industry, often aiming to stabilize food...
Debt Ceiling
The debt ceiling (in the USA) is a financial barrier is set by Congress on how much money the government can borrow to cover its expenses. When the government spends...
Estate Tax
An estate tax (or: death tax, inheritance tax) is a tax levied on the transfer of the estate of a deceased person. It's typically based on the value of the...
Student Loan Forgiveness
Student loan forgiveness refers to programs or policies that reduce or cancel student debt. Such programs or policies are typically run by the government. This forgiveness can be based on...
Planned Parenthood
One of the activities supporting planned parenthood. Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), commonly known as Planned Parenthood, is a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive and sexual healthcare, as well...
Gender Pay Gap
The gender pay gap refers to any disparity in earnings between men and women. Conservative Perspective Gender pay gap movement in the UK. Conservatives argue that the gender wage gap...
Income Inequality
Income inequality refers to the disparity in income (and wealth) between individuals in society. For example, the top 1% of income earners make significantly more than those in the bottom...
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The Housing Crisis (Canada)
Canada has the physical space, the timber, the labour force, and the capital to house its people, and it has failed to do so. Between the late 1990s and the 2020s, home prices in Vancouver, Toronto, and their surrounding regions rose far beyond local incomes, pushing ownership out of reach for a generation that did everything the country asked of it. Conservatives read this as a failure of government, not of markets: three decades of restricted land supply, permitting delays, levies loaded onto new construction, and a population target set without any matching plan to build.1 The crisis is a...
Poverty
Poverty is the condition of lacking the material resources a society treats as a minimum for decent life, but conservatives have long argued that how poverty is measured, explained, and addressed matters as much as the bare fact of deprivation. The central conservative claim is that durable escape from poverty depends less on the volume of public transfers than on work, family stability, and the habits that sustain both. From this premise flows a long-running argument with the architects of the modern welfare state. That argument is not a denial that poverty exists or that the poor deserve help. It...
Hierarchy
In conservative political thought, hierarchy refers to a structured ordering of social functions, authority, and obligation that arises from the natural differences of human capacity, vocation, and circumstance. The conservative defence of hierarchy is not a defence of any particular hierarchy at any particular moment, and is sharply distinguished from defences of caste, racial ordering, or self-interested oligarchy. The position is that some structured ordering is unavoidable in any cooperative human community, that pretending otherwise produces concealed and less accountable orderings, and that the visible inherited orderings of a free society are usually preferable on prudential grounds to the alternatives...
Traditionalist Conservatism
Traditionalist conservatism is a strand of conservative political thought that grounds political legitimacy in inherited cultural, religious, and institutional traditions rather than in abstract first principles. The position holds that political and social arrangements are best understood as the accumulated product of long communal trial and error, that this accumulated wisdom is not fully accessible to any single generation's deliberation, and that proposals for fundamental redesign should accordingly bear a heavy burden of proof. The position is distinct from reactionary politics (which seeks to restore some particular previous arrangement) and from cultural pessimism (which treats decline as inevitable). The traditionalist...