Do 5 Million Americans Really Live in Third World Poverty?
Deep poverty is very rare in the US if you include all sources of income.
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Welfare Reform: Two Decades of Success
A study purporting to show that millions of americans live on less than two dollars a day is based on faulty statistics.
Poverty in the U.S. — We Spend Much More Per Person on Social Welfare than Europe Does
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.
Want to Help the Poor? Transform, Don’t Grow, Welfare
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 ...
News Flash! Food Stamps Need Reform
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 Is at an All-Time High
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 ...
Gutting ‘Workfare’ at Taxpayers’ Expense
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 ...
Obama’s End Run on Welfare
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 ...
How Poor Is ‘Poor’?
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 ...
Clinton’s Oratory Misses Truth on Work, Welfare
By all accounts, Bill Clinton seemed to thoroughly enjoy delivering his prime-time speech to a rapt audience at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. In his 48-minute tour de force, ...