Liberty
Housing policy needs a dose of welfare reform
Howard Husock and Bruce Meyer explain why American housing policy could benefit from a form of welfare reform. In 1983, Harvard scholars Mary Jo Bane and David Ellwood sought to…
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
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Biden’s border policy cost states billions
Christopher Jacobs writes for the Federalist about the price tag associated with former President Joe Biden’s border policy. A recent report attempted to quantify the real costs the Biden administration’s…
Law & Public Safety
Cato’s Tanner documents the president’s overreaching tendencies
Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute devotes his latest National Review Online column to documenting President Obama’s penchant for ignoring constitutional limits on his office’s powers. The authors of welfare…
Elections & Public Integrity
Cal Thomas compares the 44th and 42 presidents
Cal Thomas‘ latest column probes President Obama’s decision to rely on a Democratic predecessor to help rally the party at the upcoming Charlotte convention. The president’s problem is that he’s…
Liberty
The WSJ vs. Rector immigration debate continues
NR’s Kate O’Beirne rallies to the defense of Heritage’s Robert Rector here. The [WSJ] editorial, however, failed in its aim. In fact, the editorial willfully ignored differences among different immigrant…
Liberty
Give Clinton credit
Bill, that is. The Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector says in The Washington Post today that the former president deserves more credit than he gets from conservatives for the success of…
Liberty
Welfare Reform: 10 years and counting
Federal welfare reform is 10 years old. One of my associates at The Heritage Foundation, Robert Rector, is perhaps the single most important person behind this reform. (We co-edited “Steering…
Liberty
Ten years of welfare reform
Newsweek columnist Robert J. Samuelson examines the history of the Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. I found this observation especially interesting: One lesson is that what people do for…
Liberty
No Gingrich-Edwards Cage Match
Looks like former Sen. John Edwards (D-UNC) is ducking Newt Gingrich’s call for a debate on poverty in America. Gingrich underscored the challenge yesterday during his speech at the Westin:…
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The ?working poor? is largely mythical
… Or so writes Steven Malanga in the latest issue of City Journal, published by the Manhattan Institute. A good portion of the piece is devoted to debunking Barbara Ehrenreich?s…