Defending – Enterprise

Is raising the minimum wage a good tool to help low-income workers achieve upward mobility? That’s the key question at the heart of the debate over California’s new $20 an hour minimum wage law for fast food workers.

Beth Akers sits down with local and national housing experts to help listeners understand the housing problem, and what state leaders in Utah are doing about it.

What are the right ingredients for creating the best chance of upward mobility for the most people? There’s a strong argument to be made that Utah has the answer.

Sixty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched America’s “War on Poverty.” The goal? To equip Americans stuck in poverty with the tools to achieve success. If we fast forward to 2024, we might ask: Are we winning or losing…

This question is often at the heart of debates about how to help people striving to get out of poverty. We explain why many other states are looking to Utah’s unique approach to welfare and workforce development.

Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

A coalition of state-level policy think tanks called the Alliance for Opportunity is working to bring 1 million Americans out of poverty in ten years.

Beth joins Nic Dunn to provide listeners with a guide to what candidates for office in 2024 might say about the economy – and how voters can stay focused on policy proposals that support and defend our free enterprise system.

Trying to get out of chronic poverty is challenging. Sometimes, government programs designed to help can actually make upward mobility feel harder to achieve.

Rep. Blake Moore of Utah’s 1st Congressional District joins the show to discuss runaway federal spending and how to shift away from America’s “debt culture.”