But is homeownership always beneficial for low-income Americans, or are its benefits undermined by the difficulties caused by unfavorable mortgage terms and by the poor condition or location of the homes bought?
Either way, pushing ALEC-made policies that increase private corporate benefit, undermine workers' rights and don't improve student achievement undermines the common good.
While prior research suggests that moral self-regulation helps promote honest behavior, we predict that a financial measurement basis undermines moral self-regulation by strengthening the manager's desire to advance self-interest and that the absence of direct slack benefits undermines moral self-regulation by making misreporting more justifiable.
To be sure, impact investing is surprisingly prevalent in mainstream capital markets, although the term itself makes many investment professionals nervous, mired as they are in the view that, by definition, even half an eye to creating ancillary social benefits undermines financial performance.
These budget-based cuts may have short-term financial benefits but undermine long-term policy goals.
The Resolution Foundation, in a new report, warns that Osborne's plans to introduce universal credit, merging different benefits, will undermine the impact of personal allowances.
The Trump administration is offering states multiple routes to restrict Medicaid benefits and undermine the Affordable Care Act.
Oil and gas companies thought that if they spent millions and millions of dollars, they could distract Americans from these benefits and undermine support for clean energy.
A means test for Social Security benefits would undermine the long-term support for the program and, as for an across-the-board budget freeze, Social Security should not be included.
Unless the EU exercise adds to the pool of forces available for NATO-led or EU-led operations, it will prove a burden not a benefit, and undermine the continent-stabilising partnership with America.The EU's other tests are political ones.
