What’s Wrong with the US Welfare State?
3/20/24
Who Are “The Poor” Anyway?
3/19/24
A Tax Policy Trojan Horse for Welfare Expansion and Inflationary Deficits
1/27/24
Iowa won’t participate in US food assistance program for kids this summer
1/11/24
What do the poor need most?
12/29/23
Will the World Bank Choose Climate Change Over Poverty?
10/9/23
Dependence comes up in the 21st century welfare state...
10/3/23
...the left has struggled to face the plain fact of evil...
9/12/23
Tim Scott, Leading with Joy
4/13/23
Hey, Uncle Sam, Stop Paying People For Not Working
4/8/23
Big Welfare Handouts Mean Folks Who Stay Home Are Living High on the Hog off Your Tax Dollars
1/9/23
How Expansive Welfare Benefits Can Make Being on Dole More Lucrative Than Working
1/3/23
Welfare vs Work
12/15/22
The 'Success Sequence' Works
4/9/22
How Inflation Is Squeezing Working American Families at Christmas
12/21/21
Utter Nonsense: WH Spokeswoman Says Republicans 'Rooting' for Americans to Be Hopelessly Poor
12/19/21
Energy & Poverty
11/3/21
Americans are leaving unemployment rolls more quickly in states cutting off benefits
6/29/21
Gov. DeSantis Tells Unemployed Floridians Collecting Benefits To Start Looking For A Job
5/8/21
Welfare-to-work programs can change lives
4/20/21
Declines In Poverty In 2019, But California Leads The Nation – In Poverty – With Austin, Texas Trying Hard To Catch Up
10/16/20
A Brighter Future
2/21/20
2019 Welfare, Work, and Wealth National Survey
1/1/20
HHS Issues Proposed Rule to Align Grants Regulation with New Legislation, Nondiscrimination Laws, and Supreme Court Decisions
11/2/19
Natural Gas and Hope
9/28/19
Trump administration makes push to close food stamp loophole
7/23/19
We all live like Henry Ford now.
7/21/19
L.A. business owners fed up with homeless crisis: Mayor keeps promising action, but 'there is no improvement'
7/12/19
Pope Francis and the climate change confusion
6/26/19
The Green New Deal Will Hit the Poor With Higher Energy Costs
4/29/19
Catholic Charities Fort Worth takes successful poverty solutions to Austin
4/26/19
Energy Poverty
3/21/19
Government and the Cost of Living: Income-Based vs. Cost-Based Approaches to Alleviating Poverty
10/12/18
Trump plans to replace food stamps: Here’s how
2/14/18
Payne agrees with Carson's poverty 'state of mind' message
5/28/17
Welfare Cash Aids Plotters
8/5/16
Paul Ryan emphasizes work, flexibility in anti-poverty plan
6/7/16
The Poverty Excuse for School System Failure is Nonsense
4/15/16
How Do America’s Poor Really Live? Examining the Census Poverty Report
1/22/16
US Welfare Pays For 4 Wives per Husband
11/9/15
Capitalism, Socialism and the Pope
9/27/15
Poverty in the Richest Nation
9/24/15
Poor people are neither lazy nor stupid, they are incented to be on welfare.
9/2/15
Breaking Down The Barriers: Three Ways State and Local Governments Can Improve the Lives of the Poor
8/14/15
The Price Effects of Cash versus In-Kind Transfers
8/11/15
More Work, Less Welfare
6/25/15
Do Unemployment Insurance Benefits Encourage Reemployment?
6/18/15
Exposure to Better Neighborhoods Has Positive Effects on Children
6/17/15
Certificate-of-Need Programs Do Not Increase Health Care for the Poor
5/16/15
Welfare and Social Insurance Lead to Declining Desire to Work
4/22/15
Kansas governor sign major welfare reform bill into law
4/16/15
The IRS: A Federal Welfare Agency
4/14/15
Wealthy People Are Not the Greatest Threat to Poor Neighborhoods
2/23/15
Welfare Policy and Marriage
2/17/15
How Government Policy Affects Quality, Affordable Housing
2/16/15
106 Ways to Cut the Budget
2/6/15
Inequality Report Offers Misleading Numbers
1/28/15
Cutting Unemployment Benefits Created Jobs
1/28/15
Obama Tax Credit Would Do Little to Help Families
1/21/15
Twenty Percent of U.S. Households on Food Stamps
1/15/15
There's a Big Poverty Trap in Illinois' Welfare System
1/12/15
46 Million on Food Stamps in 2014
1/10/15
Welfare Reform Must Include Medicaid
1/8/15
Poverty Drops as Urbanization Rises
12/11/14
Why Freezing Medicaid Enrollment Works
12/9/14
Free Trade Boosts Incomes, Reduces Hunger
11/12/14
Have We Won the War on Poverty?
9/22/14
"Somebody needs to pay"
8/19/14
Paul Ryan’s Anti-Poverty Proposal
7/30/14
Federal Poverty Measurement Is Misleading
7/28/14
Federal Reserve: Longer Unemployment Benefits Reduce Job Search Efforts
7/16/14
North Carolina's Unemployment Benefit Experiment
7/11/14
The Consequences of the "Great Society"
7/11/14
Impact of Welfare Reform on New York City
5/28/14
10,996,447: Disability Beneficiaries Hit New Record
5/22/14
A $1.7 Billion Program That Doesn't Work
5/22/14
Unintended Consequences of Welfare Asset Limits
5/3/14
Liberating the Poor from Poverty
4/18/14
Why Are The Poor, Poor?
4/16/14
Marriage & Poverty
3/23/14
Bipartisan group of senators reach deal on extending unemployment benefits
3/13/14
France's Reckoning: Rich, Young Flee Welfare State
3/9/14
Should We Guarantee a Minimum Income?
3/4/14
Guess What Group is Getting Food Stamps at an Alarming Rate
1/27/14
A New Direction in the War on Poverty
1/26/14
The Netherlands Embarks on Welfare Reform
1/21/14
In Defense of Inequality
1/13/14
Fraud Still a Problem in Extended Unemployment Benefit Programs
1/9/14
War on Poverty 50 years on, victory nowhere in sight
1/8/14
Is The Welfare State Kind?
12/30/13
Is Poverty the Result of Bad Luck?
12/5/13
WELFARE ABUSE: 32 year old Austin, TX welfare recipient says working is stupid.
12/1/13
Government Cell Phone Service Cost Taxpayers $2.2 Billion
11/18/13
Let’s Privatize the Welfare State
9/30/13
When It Pays Not to Work
9/17/13
Welfare Pays More than Minimum Wage in Most States
8/27/13
The Work versus Welfare Trade-Off: 2013
8/20/13
Signs of Declining Economic Security
8/5/13
Building a Wall around the Welfare State, Instead of the Country
7/29/13
High Unemployment Caused by Welfare Programs
6/10/13
U.K. Welfare Is the Problem, Not EU Migrants
6/6/13
Eurozone Debt Crisis: The United States Is Next
6/3/13
Harlem Children's Zone Brings Progress and Hope
3/13/13
US, other nations quietly maneuvering to rein in sprawling, inefficient UN system
2/20/13
WHY WORK??
2/18/13
Low-Income Workers Suffer High Effective Marginal Tax Rates
High Taxes Penalize Working Wives
Bruce Bartlett’s Worst Column,
The Number Of People On Welfare Exceeds The Number Of People With Jobs In 11 States
12/30/12
American Men Find Careers in Collecting Disability
12/5/12
Drug testing welfare recipients,
11/13/12
Who Cares More - right or left?
11/6/12
'Welfare' spending topped $1 trillion
10/18/12
Obama ‘trying to enlarge the underclass,’ 1998 remarks are proof
9/24/12
House votes to block Obama's change to welfare requirement
9/21/12
How Poor is "Poor"?
9/19/12
Swelling Welfare Rolls Are a Sure Sign That Recovery Never Happened
9/5/12
Do You Care More than Paul Krugman Cares?
8/29/12
Welfare and ATM cards
8/17/12
FREE STUFF
7/30/12
Poor Forever?
7/11/12
Poverty the biggest threat to democracy?
4/25/12
January 18, 2012 • Beckel: 'We liberals made a terrible mistake'