It’s About Welfare Reform, Not the Sequester
The sequester is forcing devastating cuts on the nation’s welfare system at a time of record poverty levels — or so shouts a recent Associated Press dispatch, magnified with glee ...
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Washington Post’s Faulty Fact-Checking on Welfare
The Washington Post’s “fact-checker” columnist, Glenn Kessler, recently took aim at a chart on federal welfare spending released by Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), as well as a statement the ...
Romney Urges NAACP to Embrace School Choice
In his speech Wednesday morning at the NAACP convention in Houston, Mitt Romney threw a spotlight on the rampant educational inequality facing the nation’s black schoolchildren. The presumptive Republican nominee ...
The Economic Inequality of Unwed Births
A new study from the Journal of Economic Perspectives suggests that teen childbearing is more an outcome of poor economic circumstances than a cause. As the authors assert:
Taken as a ...
Unwed Childbearing is the ‘New Normal’? Depends on Where You Stand
Unwed childbearing is the “new normal” for women under 30, reports the New York Times. A study from the research organization Child Trends reveals that 53 percent of births to ...
Welfare in the Bronx: Personal Responsibility Is Still the Key
“Need Welfare in the Bronx? Come Back Tomorrow, Maybe” — that’s the title of a recent Womensenews.org piece that questions the success of welfare reform. Caseloads may have dropped, argues ...