Showing posts with label welfare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label welfare. Show all posts

Thomas Sowell: 2014 - A Year Of Anniversaries

2014 has been a year of anniversaries.        It was the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War — a war which many at the time saw as madness, and predicted that it would be the harbinger of a Second World War a generation later. 2014 was also the 70th anniversary of the fateful landing at Normandy that marked the beginning of  ... MORE

The Financial Costs of Illegal Immigration

from National Center For Policy Analysis.     Over the course of a lifetime, 11.5 million illegal immigrants granted amnesty would receive $9.4 trillion in government benefits after paying just $3.1 trillion in taxes. Many people believe that illegal immigrants receive little government welfare, but that is not the case, contends David Inserra,      ... MORE

Have Entitlements Become More Attractive Than Work?

A new food stamp pattern. The food stamp program (more formally, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) is intended to help low-income Americans with their food bills. Traditionally, the number of Americans receiving SNAP benefits rises during poor economic times and falls during good ones. But that is not what is       ... MORE

John Stossel - Good Intentions, Incentives And Poverty

The great conceit of central planners. Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson declared "War on Poverty." It sounded great to me. I was taught at Princeton, "We're a rich country. All we have to do is tax the rich, and then use that money to create programs that will lift the poor out of poverty." Government created job-training programs for  ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Spending And Morality

Politicians reflect moral rot.         During last year's budget negotiation meetings, President Barack Obama told House Speaker John Boehner, "We don't have a spending problem." When Boehner responded with "But, Mr. President, we have a very serious spending problem," Obama replied, "I'm getting tired of hearing you say that."    ... MORE

Obama Just Found A Way to Make College Cost More

by Shikha Dalmia.      University presidents are crying a river over the Obama plan to create a federal scorecard to rate colleges. But their tears might be the only good thing to come out of this plan. Otherwise, it's simply a welfare scheme for students masquerading as college accountability that won't do diddly to make college more         ... MORE

F-Stamp Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Women Workers

by Terence P. Jeffrey.    Another victory for hope and change. People participating in the food stamp program outnumbered the women who worked full-time, year-round in the United States in 2012, according to data from the Department of Agriculture and the Census Bureau. In the average month of 2012, according to the Department of     ... MORE

Where Is The Outrage Over Corporate Welfare?

by David Brunori.         I recently read the February 24 Good Jobs First report, “Subsidizing the Corporate One Percent,” by Philip Mattera, a respected thought leader in our business. It says that three-quarters of all state economic development subsidies went to just 965 corporations since the beginning of the study in 1976. The Fortune 500       ... MORE

Veronique de Rugy: Time For A Guaranteed Income?

Friedman and Hayek supported the notion.      Switzerland will soon hold a nationwide referendum on granting a guaranteed and unconditional minimum monthly income of $2,800 for each Swiss adult. In America, where Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty just celebrated its 50th anniversary of failing to achieve victory, liberals jumped on the  ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Dependency, Not Poverty

There is no material poverty in the U.S.     Here are a few facts about people whom the Census Bureau labels as poor. Dr. Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield, in their study "Understanding Poverty in the United States: Surprising Facts About America's Poor", report that 80 percent of poor households have air conditioning; nearly three-quarters      ... MORE

John Stossel: Real Charity

'Tis the season for giving.       But when you give, do you know your money will help someone? Social workers say, "Don't give to beggars." Those who do give are "enablers," helping alcoholics and drug users to continue bad habits. It's better to give to charities that help the "homeless." I put "homeless" in quotes because my TV       ... MORE

Glen Harlan Reynolds: A Look At Medicaid's Awful Results

Incentives against doctors and high quality medical care.   As the Obamacare debacle rolls on -- looking even worse than it did a week ago, if that's possible -- there's a separate but related issue involving Medicaid expansion. And, as with Obamacare, people who oppose the expansion risk being called heartless murderers for "denying sick  ... MORE

IRS Paid Out $110 Billion In EITC To The Unqualified

One in five dollars squandered on improper payments.     The Internal Revenue Service has paid out more than $110 billion in tax credits over the past decade to people who didn't qualify for them, a Treasury report has revealed. The Earned Income Tax Credits were intended for poor working families but the report showed that one in five   ... MORE

Michael Tanner: Why Get Off Welfare?

Being poor doesn't mean you're stupid.            Contrary to stereotypes, there is no evidence that people on welfare are lazy. Indeed, surveys of welfare recipients consistently show their desire for a job. But there is also evidence that many are reluctant to accept available employment opportunities. Despite work requirements  ... MORE