by Dan Mitchell | Jun 8, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
I have a special page called Poverty Hucksters, which features people or institutions (such as the Obama Administration, Steven Greenhouse, and the United Nations) that have deliberately lied about poverty. No person has ever been featured more...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 18, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Government is far too big today and it will become an even bigger burden in the future because of demographic changes and poorly designed entitlements. There’s no way to fix this problem without a major effort to shrink the redistributive...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 23, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
At the start of the year, I pointed out how politicians used the pandemic as an excuse to increase the long-run trend line of government spending. Today, let’s look at how one component of the federal budget has contributed to America’s perilous fiscal...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 21, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Let’s take another look at America’s extravagant welfare system. In Part I of this series, I shared a map showing which states provided the biggest TANF handouts (just one of many welfare programs). In Part II of this series, I shared a comparison of total...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 15, 2024 | Blogs, Free Market
Every previous column in this series (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, and Part VI) has featured a video. I’m going to break that pattern today and instead start with this profoundly important tweet. The first part of the tweet...
