A new article that evaluated the impact of changes to the scope or generosity of social safety net programs concludes that ...

Children who have already been victimized should never be placed in another abusive or neglectful home by the state. Yet several recent cases raise alarms about the safety of guardianships and ...

After the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision, it is vital that the safety net be reformed in a way that truly supports and encourages better outcomes for mothers, children, and families.

The idea behind universal basic income (UBI) policy has a record of failure. Policymakers seeking to reform the welfare state should focus on policies proven to work. Appropriate priorities for ...

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), implemented in 1996, ended the national entitlement to welfare for families with dependent children and created Temporary ...

President Ronald Reagan's radio address to the nation on welfare reform, 8/1/1987. (Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute) The so-called welfare queen is among the most potent, persistent, ...

Although America’s social welfare system may be lacking in relative size, it more than makes up for it with its complexities, according to Christopher D. Howard, William & Mary’s Pamela C. Harriman ...

Thomas G. West is Paul Ermine Potter and Dawn Tibbetts Potter professor of politics at Hillsdale College. Which approach to welfare policy is better for the poor: that of the Founders or that of today ...

On Thursday, AEI’s Naomi Schaefer Riley spoke with Jim Dwyer, professor of law at William & Mary Law School, about his new book, “Liberal Child Welfare Policy and Its Destruction of Black Lives” ...

Thomas Malthus' 200-year-old argument that people are poor because they lack self-discipline continues to frame U.S. welfare policy despite substantial evidence to the contrary, say two sociologists ...

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