Fighting Bad Economics Textbooks in American Classrooms

Showing 8 Economics Education videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Economics education became a specific, documented cause for Charlie Kirk, built around the claim that public school textbooks teach material contradicted by the actual data. Kirk described bringing a local high school economics textbook, built around Paul Krugman's arguments in Conscience of a Liberal, directly to his old teacher and school board after finding a passage claiming the Reagan tax cuts produced no acceleration in economic growth, disputing it with job-creation figures from the same period. Turning Point USA's broader campus strategy grew from that same instinct: challenging textbooks Kirk considered factually wrong rather than merely ideologically slanted. Connor Boyack's Tuttle Twins children's book series applies a similar corrective further down the age range, distilling classic free-market texts like Bastiat's The Law into stories parents say have taught even elementary-age children to grasp concepts like inflation and entrepreneurship. Economist Dr. Charles Steele extended the same argument to specific failed policies, using historical examples from the Soviet Union and Venezuela to explain why rent control and government-run grocery stores reliably produce shortages rather than abundance.