Conventional wisdom holds that the U.S. has a small social-welfare system and far more poverty, compared with other affluent nations. But conventional wisdom is falt wrong.
For a half century, Washington has endlessly enlarged the welfare state, piling one program on top of another, adding layer after layer of spending. In his State of the Union ...
In a recent NRO article, Henry Olsen charges that the Heritage Foundation is leading a “conservative war on food stamps” that will take “food from the mouths of the genuinely ...
Welfare spending has hit a stunning all-time high. A new Congressional Research Service report confirms what research here at the Heritage Foundation has shown: Means-tested welfare programs now cost taxpayers ...
Liberals in the House of Representatives voted unsuccessfully to jettison the federal work requirements established in the 1996 welfare-reform law. Even worse, as the losing side of the 250–164 vote ...
The work requirements underpinning the nation’s largest cash-assistance welfare program no longer are legally binding on state governments. They can and will be replaced by alternative rules devised unilaterally by ...
Yesterday morning, the U.S. Bureau of the Census released its annual report on income and poverty, saying that some 46.2 million Americans — 15 percent of the population — were ...