Welfare

Block-granting Medicaid would allow states to innovate and provide better quality coverage to those in need. (AP Photo/Christian K. Lee)

Beltway Confidential

Why we need Medicaid block grants

Hadley Heath Manning · January 31, 2017 8:31 pm

Pundits are jumping on Andy Puzder as an excuse to criticize companies that provide low-wage jobs. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Beltway Confidential

Low-wage jobs don’t increase welfare spending

Andrew Wilford · January 29, 2017 12:00 am

The closest thing we have to this today in the U.S. is the Earned Income Tax Credit. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)

Beltway Confidential

Friedmanism in Finland?

David Freddoso · January 3, 2017 1:00 pm

America has joined in this worldwide trend because, I think, it is part of the nature of democracy to move towards government-provided welfare. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

The silent revolution

James Bartholomew · December 7, 2016 5:03 am

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Hillary Clinton's victory would doom the U.S. to "a future of slow growth, declining incomes and dwindling prosperity." (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump: No jobs under Clinton, just ‘a welfare check’

Gabby Morrongiello · September 15, 2016 4:21 pm

Kansas and Maine's experiences indicate that a large number of able-bodied, childless recipients were happy to collect food benefits while they could do so without any obligation. (AP Photo)

Welfare reform, 20 years later

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2016 4:01 am

The 1996 welfare reform law was only possible through the joint efforts of a Republican Congress led by Newt Gingrich and a Democratic president, Bill Clinton — a legislative history that seems both mythical and little short of miraculous in the hyper-polarized political context we live in today. (AP Photo/Joe Marquette)

20 years after welfare reform, can we do it again?

Vanessa Brown Calder · August 22, 2016 6:45 pm

The welfare report was published Monday to mark the 20th anniversary of President Bill Clinton signing the reform legislation. (AP Photo)

New study shuts down critics of 1996 welfare reform

Joseph Lawler · August 22, 2016 4:01 am

Mythbusting Nordic Exceptionalism

Alice B. Lloyd · August 16, 2016 2:42 pm

Jason Furman warned that the introduction of robots could push down on employment and labor force participation in the short term as workers find themselves losing jobs and searching for new ones. (Matthew Busch/Bloomberg, File)

Obama adviser warns that robots could worsen inequality

Joseph Lawler · July 7, 2016 2:59 pm

Replacing Welfare Benefits With Guaranteed Income

Erin Mundahl · June 26, 2016 4:01 pm

Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., has proposed legislation aimed at forcing anyone claiming $150,000 in itemized deductions on their tax returns to submit to a drug test. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Dem demands drug tests for the rich

Pete Kasperowicz · June 17, 2016 12:43 pm