Reaganomics A Controversial Yet Enduring Impact on the US Economy

The results of the 1980 elections encouraged high hopes among Republicans that their party's long period of minority status was at last reaching a close. In this, Reagan imbued an understanding of the limits of federal government intervention in generations of Americans. Reagan the Libertarian? In ... Reagan's vision was that America was a morally just nation, and freedom was deserved by every person in every nation. Again, this vision appealed to followers ... Reagan was deeply influenced by his godly mother, Nelle, and raised in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Reagan's firm belief that God had a plan for ... What President Reagan did instead of redistributing tax dollars was to revitalize the economy and unleash a period of sustained economic growth, ... These shaky economic times helped Reagan get elected and once in office, he made his top priority fixing the economic crisis the U.S. faced. Reagan's welfare reforms just made the poor poorer. When a three-year recession hit in 1980, six million more Americans fell into poverty. By ... Breaking with the doctrine of “Containment," established during the Truman administration—President Ronald Reagan's foreign policy was based on John Foster ... The Human Life Review is the academic backbone of the pro-life movement and has been publishing academic journals since 1974,In 1983, Reagan penned ... For decades before coming into office, Reagan had criticized the spread of Soviet communism and the danger it posed. He compared communism to Nazism and ...