Do Federal Social Programs Work?
In the current budgetary environment of high deficits and ballooning federal debt, Congress has a moral obligation to cut funding for and even eliminate these ineffective social programs.
View Article7 Priorities for the 2016 Congressional Budget Resolution
The new 114th Congress must address growing spending and debt in its 2016 Congressional Budget Resolution.
View Article$4 Trillion and Counting: President Obama’s 2016 Budget Presents a Vision of...
Congress should offer Americans a better budget than the President’s budget—one that addresses the key drivers of spending growth.
View ArticleThe Redistributive State: The Allocation of Government Benefits, Services,...
For a century or more, the redistribution of economic resources has been a major, if implicit, function of modern government.
View ArticlePoverty and the Social Welfare State in the United States and Other Nations
The U.S. should seek to reduce poverty by promoting self-sufficiency rather than increasing spending on anti-poverty programs.
View ArticleMaine Food Stamp Work Requirement Cuts Non-Parent Caseload by 80 Percent
The federal government should establish work requirements similar to Maine’s for the 4.7 million ABAWDs nationwide who currently receive food stamps.
View ArticleSetting Priorities for Welfare Reform
The U.S. spent $1 trillion on the 80-plus programs in its means-tested welfare system in 2015.
View ArticleWelfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act Can Restart Welfare Reform
The Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act would take the most significant steps in decades to address problems within the welfare system.
View ArticleGetting the Facts Straight on School Meals and Child Nutrition Reauthorization
The House and the Senate might soon consider child nutrition bills that would reauthorize the infamous Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010
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