Imposing income equality through redistribution fails to promote individual advancement. That’s a point made by Angela Rachidi of AEI in congressional testimony on July 13,… Read More »Watch Out When You Impose Income Equality
There were 13.1 million working-age adults in poverty in 2020 that did not work during the year. The chart below shows their reason for not… Read More »Why Those In Poverty Are Not Working (it’s not jobs)
In fiscal year 2019, we spent $4.4 trillion. Then in the next three years, we spent $6.6, $6.8, and last year $6.3 trillion. The increases… Read More »Covid Expense Hurt, It Blew Out the Federal Budget
We are compassionate people. We want to help those in poverty. We spend billions. Yet our welfare system is old and decrepit. It is in… Read More »Let’s Dream – A New Welfare 2.0
Americans have a very strong favorable opinion of work. 80% believe that hard work is its own reward [Cato]. 90% of voters in FGA poll and 87% in AEI/Los… Read More »Work Requirements in Welfare
Welfare Programs of the Federal Government are run in eight different federal agencies. This makes the system difficult to navigate and use. More