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More U.N. Lies about Poverty

More U.N. Lies about Poverty

by Dan Mitchell | Oct 22, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements

In 2018, I shared a visual that I referred to as the western world’s “most depressing chart.” It showed how the welfare state exploded in size after World War II and is now an enormous fiscal burden. This has been bad news for taxpayers, of course, but...
Handouts Don’t Help Kids

Handouts Don’t Help Kids

by Dan Mitchell | Aug 13, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements

A few years ago, advocates of a “basic income” seemed to have a lot of momentum on their side. Nations were holding referendums, presidential candidates were embracing the concept, and even some libertarians were saying nice things about the idea. Being a curmudgeon...
Columnist at the Washington Post Lies About Poverty…Again

Columnist at the Washington Post Lies About Poverty…Again

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...
Removing a Subsidy Is Not an Attack

Removing a Subsidy Is Not an Attack

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...
Handouts Don’t Help Kids

Advice for DOGE: Curtail Record Welfare Spending in Washington

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...
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