Michele Bachmann must have mentioned his name half a dozen times. It was a special meeting of the House's Republican Study Committee, and conservative lawmakers were taking turns arguing the merits of ...

Robert Rector will discuss his art at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 25, in the gallery at the Manship Theatre at the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St. Admission is free at the event hosted by Ann ...

For the past 50 years, the government’s annual poverty rate has hardly changed at all. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 15 percent of Americans still live in poverty, roughly the same rate as the ...

Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc. hosts an exhibition by American painter Robert Rector. The works in this show represent the stylistic evolution of Mr. Rector’s paintings over the past 40 years. Most ...

2017-09-15T08:40:00-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/eb8/20170915085845001_hd.jpgOlivia Golden and Robert Rector talked about the latest Census Bureau report on ...

The Census Bureau has released its annual poverty report, which shows that in 2015 the poverty rate of families with children was 16.3 percent. That's a decrease from the previous year but still ...

I sat at a desk in the disheveled news room of the Los Angeles Times Valley Edition on Jan. 18, 1994. It was the day after the great Northridge Earthquake and we were not far from the epicenter. The ...

Mr. Rector is a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Congress should reinvest in — not reverse — the bipartisan success of 1996 reform. Deep poverty is very rare in the US if you include ...

Fifty-one years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched the War on Poverty. Since then, taxpayers have spent more than $22 trillion fighting Johnson's war, three times the cost of all military wars ...

It is the custom of this column to mark the end of each year with a compilation of the best, or worse, or most convoluted, or contrived, or outrageous, or downright silly media corrections. We used to ...