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The End of the Welfare State: Can Libertarianism Solve America's Welfare Crisis? -  America is a country founded on the principles of individual liberty and ... Poverty is something that only individuals can fix; not the government.

America's Welfare "Reform" Laws Are Perpetuating Poverty By Sherwood Ross (about the author) The tougher welfare laws instituted by President Bill Clinton with great fanfare have only worked to keep the poor poverty -stricken longer, a former welfare mother who knows the story from the inside, contends. ...

America's demented welfare mentality: How we choose to inflict misery — while protecting the rich  - In fact, due to the increasingly unequal distribution of market income, our nation's welfare state is the sole reason the national poverty rate fell over that ...

Martin Luther King's Dream Turned into “ America's Nightmare”: Extreme Poverty and Social ... - “The proposed tax reform package stakes out America's bid to become the most unequal society in the world, and will greatly increase the already high levels of wealth and income inequality between the richest 1% and the poorest 50% of Americans . The dramatic cuts in welfare, foreshadowed by the ...

Lifting families out of poverty - with dignity  -  America's welfare state is quietly evolving from needs-based to an employment-based safety net that rewards working families and fuels dreams of a ...

The Anti- Poverty Experiment That Could Fix America's Broken Welfare System - And even though that project might not tell us much about how a basic ... of dollars to prevent poverty , and yet one in seven of us still lives in poverty , ...

The Trump Budget's Approach to Welfare Is Based On Discredited Delusions - A 2013 study by Columbia University economists found that America's poverty rate has fallen by 40 percent since the mid-1960s, when the Great ...

The first step in welfare reform should help American families - They really did try to solve poverty , and I'm grateful to them for caring so ... But in recent decades, that bedrock of America's communities has been ...

Time Running Out in Ryan's Quest to Overhaul Welfare Programs - Here was a conservative eager to go to America's bleakest communities and talk about how free enterprise would lift people out of poverty ,” Ryan ...

Americans Will Need a Guaranteed Income - As an attempt to forge compromise between those who wanted to maintain America's existing welfare state and those who believed welfare was bad  ...

American Exceptionalism's Dark Side: Poverty and Despair in America - The proposed tax reform package stakes out America's bid to become the most unequal society in the world, and will greatly increase the already high levels of wealth and income inequality between the richest 1% and the poorest 50% of Americans .” “The dramatic cuts in welfare, foreshadowed by the ...

One of America's oldest social-welfare programs is not really a ... SNAP) is designed to provide families below and just above the poverty line with ... View article...