Publications -- Welfare

Jan 20, 1995

BA #145 – Welfare Reform That Really Works

Public opinion polls show most people recognize that the current welfare system has utterly failed and are thoroughly disgusted with it.  They would overwhelmingly support radical reform including spending reductions.

Oct 01, 1994

ST #187 – Why Not Abolish the Welfare State?

Everyone from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton seems to agree. Our welfare system is a disaster. It's in desperate need of reform.

Jul 01, 1988

ST #133 – Paying People Not to Work: The Unemployment Compensation System

The Unemployment Compensation system encourages employeers to lay off their employees and discourages the unemployed from finding new jobs.

Nov 01, 1987

ST #131 – Private Sector Alternatives to the Welfare State: A New Agenda for Black Americans

The black community in the U.S. has a rich tradition of self-help institutions. These institutions, essential to black survival, thrived in the time of black slavery, during the period following the Civil War, during the Great Depression and during other crisis -- long before there was a welfare state and at times when white society was either hostile or indifferent to the plight of blacks.

Jun 01, 1986

ST #123 – Privatizing the Welfare State

New evidence shows that there are remarkable differences among the people we label as "poor".

Feb 01, 1986

ST #121 – Paying People to be Poor

Since 1972, there has been a strong, positive relationship between the amount of welfare spending and the amount of poverty, after adjusting for other important factors, including the unemployment rate and the rate of economic growth.

Jul 30, 1983

ST #107 – Welfare Report

The welfare system of the United States is creating proverty, not destroying it. The War on Poverty not only is not being won, but the weapons designed to defeat poverty are being used to insure its proliferation.