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    You’ve Never Heard of This Legislation. But If Passed, It Would Increase the Welfare State.
    Before Congress recessed for the midterm elections, lawmakers announced plans to use the current lame-duck session to work on passing a bill called "The Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act." Supporters describe the bill as a way to eliminate "barriers to work and saving by preventing dollars saved through ABLE accounts from counting against…
    Robert Rector | Romina Boccia
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    Colorado’s New Welfare Rule Increases Benefits, Costs Taxpayers
    Temporary Assistance for Needy Families is six months less temporary and millions of dollars more expensive in Colorado after a state Department of Human Services rule change last year, documents show. Before the change, counties had to certify welfare recipients’ eligibility to receive benefits annually, but recipients had to submit monthly status reports to ensure…
    Arthur Kane
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    It’s the Culture, Stupid: Welfare Programs Can’t Solve Economic Gap Created by Marriage Decline
    This may be a surprising statement from a bleary-eyed, number-crunching economist, but the best anti-poverty program in America may not be tax cuts, debt reduction or regulatory relief, but rather that old-fashioned institution called marriage. It turns out that poverty rates are very low among intact families and prevalent among homes without a father. Children…
    Stephen Moore
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    How the New Congress Should Deal With This ‘Too Big to Fail’ Entitlement Program
    It’s an entitlement program “too big to fail.” Medicare now covers 52 million seniors and disabled citizens. That’s why you can expect the seemingly unending debate on Medicare to resume when the new Congress convenes in January—no matter who controls the Senate. The first order of business will be to repeal and replace the Medicare…
    Robert Moffit
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    These 3 Charts Show What Different States Spend on Corporate Welfare
    The federal government is not the only source of corporate welfare. According to Veronique de Rugy, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, “corporate welfare is a significant problem at the state level.” De Rugy writes that state governments often use “generous, targeted subsidy packages” to lure corporations to relocate….
    Kate Scanlon
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    State’s Welfare Recipients Withdraw Money in Far-Off Places (Hawaii, Las Vegas and Even Virgin Islands)
    Taxpayers are apparently buying welfare recipients booze and cigarettes for the road—at times a quite exotic road. An analysis of a Colorado Department of Human Services welfare ATM withdrawals database shows that $3.8 million was withdrawn by Colorado welfare recipients outside the state in the past two years. There were withdrawals at out-of-state liquor stores…
    Arthur Kane
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    Think the National Debt Is Large? Well, the Entitlements Deficit Is Even Bigger
    Long-term unfunded obligations in Medicare and Social Security alone reached nearly $49 trillion, according to the 2014 report from the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees. That’s nearly three times the size of the total national debt of $17.6 trillion, or more than $150,000 for every person in the U.S. It helps to break…
    Romina Boccia
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