Center on Wealth & Poverty

Center on Wealth & Poverty Our Team:

George Gilder, Chair
Robert Marbut
Jay Richards
Michael Medved
Scott S. Powell
Bill Walton

A program of Discovery Institute, the mission of the Center on Wealth and Poverty is to connect the practical truths of economics with the perennial truths of ethics.

08/21/2026

🚨 PORTLAND: Smoking m*th in broad daylight, directly in front of a police car.

Open-air drug use has become a defining feature of Portland’s homelessness crisis, playing out in full view of law enforcement and the public.

This is very Portland.

08/21/2026

🚨 SEATTLE: Tyler Oliveira and Jonathan Choe Journalist had a G*N PULLED on them while documenting a notorious homeless drug encampment.

The armed man, known as “Billy,” has been identified by Choe as a longtime figure in Seattle’s homeless encampments and an alleged drug dealer.

Despite repeated homeless encampment sweeps, Choe says Billy has simply been displaced from one location to another. Billy remains at large following this confrontation.

08/20/2026

🚨 BREAKING: Journalists Tyler Oliveira and Jonathan Choe Journalist were CHASED and pepper sprayed while documenting Seattle’s homeless crisis.

Seattle has poured billions into addressing homelessness and addiction. Yet reporters documenting the crisis are now becoming targets of it.

WATCH what happened 👇

08/18/2026

🚨 SEATTLE: King County Superior Court Judge Nelson Lee dismissed murder charges IN UNDER 3 MINUTES against accused Seattle ax killer Liam Kryger after he was found incompetent to stand trial.

Kryger was charged with two counts of first-degree murder after prosecutors alleged he stalked and killed two homeless men, Daravuth Van and Paul Ewell, while they slept.

But instead of facing a murder trial, Kryger’s criminal case has now been dismissed and moved into Washington state’s mental health system, where he will undergo civil commitment proceedings.

Two men are dead. The accused killer will not stand trial.

08/13/2026

🚨NEW: Homeless drug addict in Portland admits to funding her C*CAINE addiction using EBT for the last 20 YEARS

Taxpayers have now spent over $20,000 to supply her addiction.

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Credit: Truth on the streets

08/13/2026

🚨BREAKING: HUD Sec. Scott Turner announced the Trump admin is CUTTING OFF funding to The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.

Los Angeles Continuum of Care, led by LAHSA, receives more federal homelessness funding than any other jurisdiction in the United States.

"They will not receive another CENT of American taxpayer money until they can account for every single dollar!"

"LAHSA had received $1 BILLION in taxpayer dollars over the last five years with no accountability and zero results!"

AMAZING NEWS!

🚨BREAKING: Seattle looking to BAN RVs off of streets unless the people living in them are working with outreach workers ...
08/11/2026

🚨BREAKING: Seattle looking to BAN RVs off of streets unless the people living in them are working with outreach workers to get housing (per KOMO News)

Councilmember Dan Strauss: "The first 3 offenses will be warnings...then vehicle will be subject to impound without notice."

08/07/2026

❤️NEW: Julianna was a homeless single mom, sleeping in casino parking lots with no clear path forward. Today, she's a brand new homeowner.

08/06/2026

🚨 CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Bellevue community watch volunteers stopped a suspected shoplifting attempt at a QFC grocery store in Crossroads after a man allegedly posing as disabled tried to steal from the store. Jonathan Choe Journalist

Organizers say they did not call police, citing long response times and uncertainty that the suspect would be arrested or prosecuted. Instead, community volunteers intervened themselves.

08/04/2026

🚨BREAKING: SPOKANE, WA "It's like the day after a nuclear bomb."

Truth on the streets is on the ground capturing the devastation caused by an alleged arson attack that burned down HUNDREDS of homes. Suspect is in custody.

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