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Zachary Halaschak of the Washington Examiner focuses on recent reviews of government programs that dole out free money. Interest in universal basic income has grown in recent years, and now…
Yesterday, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that states will have the opportunity to implement work requirements as part of Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for…
Robert Rector uses a National Review Online column to counter misinformation about the 20-year impact of federal welfare reforms. Two decades ago, on August 22, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed…
Jim McTague of Barron’s devotes his latest “D.C. Current” column to the potential impact of President Obama’s recent immigration order on the federal Treasury. Several studies from pro-immigrant groups and…
Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation has little good to say in a new Daily Signal column about the 50th anniversary of the Johnson administration’s “War on Poverty.” Liberals claim…
Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation explains for National Review Online readers why a proposal to scale back the federal food-stamp program is not the devastating cut described by left-of-center…
Walter Williams devotes his latest column to an exploration of some of the rhetoric associated with discussions about poverty. There’s nothing intellectually challenging or unusual about poverty. For most of…
Amid the debate about the Obama administration’s plans to change welfare’s work requirements, Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation writes for National Review Online that those requirements ought to be…
Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation offers the following thoughts about the links between marriage and alleviation of poverty: The continuing collapse of marriage in America, along with a dramatic…
Writing for National Review Online, Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Robert Rector explores the Obama administration’s efforts to remove work requirements tied to federal welfare programs. Unable to eliminate “workfare”…
Within days of John Hood explaining the poor state of poverty statistics, a new Thomas Sowell column contends that the word “poverty” should be a leading contender in the “contest…
If you appreciated John Hood’s recent Daily Journal on the “poor” state of current poverty statistics, you might enjoy a new column at National Review Online from Robert Rector of…