Paul Ryan: How Conservatism Helps the Poor
When it comes to explaining how their policies would help the poor and the disadvantaged, conservatives can all too often be likened to a football… Read More
Marriage: The Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty
The collapse of marriage, along with a dramatic rise in births to single women, is the most important cause of childhood poverty—but government policy doesn’t… Read More
Guest Post: Empowering Communities To Fight Poverty and Violence
It’s been nearly 50 years since Lyndon B. Johnson launched his War on Poverty, and much has been debated about the appropriate role of government… Read More
Reforming the Fastest Growing Government Welfare Program
The House of Representatives is poised to pass a budget reconciliation measure that would tackle increased spending in the food stamps program (or, as it’s… Read More
The Poverty Solution: Marriage or Bust
Last week, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that the U.S. just saw the largest annual increase in poverty recorded in our nation’s… Read More
Increasing Numbers of the Poor: Why Government Anti-Poverty Programs Have Failed
The recent release of the Census report on an upsurge of the number of Americans in poverty will almost surely be used to justify a… Read More
One in Six Americans Receives Government Assistance
One in six Americans now receives some form of government assistance, reported last week’s U.S.A Today. Fifty million are on Medicaid, a record high and… Read More
Morning Bell: Halting the Explosive Growth of Welfare Entitlements
Despite its failure last week, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) is continuing to push his tax-extenders bill. Bundled together with the many egregious pieces of this… Read More
