Don’t take this advice.

Before our depressing discussion today about the fiscal impact of entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, EITC, Food Stamps, welfare, and Obamacare, etc), here’s a video of how it all began. I think this is a great introduction to the issue, particularly since you learn how “public choice” (i.e., politicians engaging in self-serving behavior) played a key role in the development […]

The poor get trapped in dependency.

Are work requirements better than the status quo?

Taxpayers are less sympathetic when giving away money to newcomers.

New study adds much needed context to the ongoing debate over paid family leave.

The United States is in the middle of the pack.

Depressing numbers about growing dependency in the United States.

Poverty in rich nations declined before modern welfare states.

Welfare dependency is heritable.