form of government that protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens
For decades, American policymakers have debated how best to reduce poverty. The dominant policy response since 1964 and the launch of the War on Poverty under President Lyndon B. Johnson has been redistribution, expanding government programs designed to transfer…
Ben Weingarten writes for the Federalist about a lesson to be learned from Minnesota’s current government scandal. There’s a deeper, darker truth lurking beneath the Somali-dominated, multi-billion-dollar Minnesota welfare fraud…
Ruy Teixeira hopes fellow Democrats learn a lesson from the Minnesota welfare fraud scandal. The specter of welfare fraud haunts the Democrats once again. Concerns about abuse of generous government…
As the federal government’s shutdown stretches into another week, millions of Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are facing an uncertain month. The U.S. Department of…
Anti-poverty advocates are throwing a fit over the Trump administration’s decision to halt the Household Food Security report, a survey that measures levels of hunger and food insecurity in the…
“The government should actively intervene to address income inequality” is a statement broadly accepted and promoted by progressives for decades. But is such intervention justified? The burden of proof lies…
Joy Pullmann of the Federalist pans a proposal to pay American women for having babies. I think it’s entirely legit to exempt parents from taxes completely and raise taxes on…
Editors at National Review Online urge Republican leaders to flesh out healthcare policy ideas. Asked to explain his health-care proposal during the presidential debate, Donald Trump said, “I have concepts…
Christopher Jacobs writes for the Federalist about the current impact of the poorly named Affordable Care Act. Lest anyone think the gusher of federal spending ended with the Covid pandemic,…
Editors at the Washington Examiner ponder the consequences of paying people not to work. It has been almost two years since the economy recovered fully from the coronavirus pandemic, but…
Christopher Jacobs of the Federalist takes a close look at one Republican congressional staffer’s comments about the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill. The subject is a deal involving Medicaid. Consider…
Inflation is more than just an expensive trip to the grocery store or gas pump. Workers sacrifice goals and dreams to combat the immediate peril of skyrocketing prices. Inflation destroys…