Welfare | The Government Should Discourage Welfare Dependency

In the following viewpoint, Charles Murray asserts that in order to encourage welfare mothers to change their behavior and join the workforce, government must ensure that remaining on public assistance offers a lower standard of living than low-wage work does. Although politicians talked tough about ending the entitlement to welfare during the passage of the 1996 welfare reform bill, the pressure on recipients to get jobs has eased, and people are finding loopholes in the complex welfare laws. For the increasingly unmotivated and unreceptive clients still on the rolls, welfare remains a...

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