Do-Good Leftist Lending Policies Hurt the Poor Most

Do-Good Leftist Lending Policies Hurt the Poor Most
People walk into a check cashing store in downtown Brooklyn in New York on Jan. 8, 2021. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Stephen Moore
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Isn’t it amazing how liberal policies often have the exact opposite effect of what they were intended to do? The left’s soft-on-crime policies aren’t helping minority communities, but increasing thefts and shootings and making these neighborhoods terror zones.

Stephen Moore
Stephen Moore
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Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, chief economist at FreedomWorks, and co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. He served as a senior economic adviser to Donald Trump. His latest book is “Govzilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government Is Impoverishing America.”
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