Welfare Reform | Welfare Should Be Eliminated
Michael Tanner is the director of health and welfare studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C.
Summary: The welfare system wastes money and is unfair to all Americans, including the five million families receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Substantial evidence proves that there is a link between the availability of welfare and out-of-wedlock births, that welfare contributes to increased crime, that job-training programs are ineffective, and that government policies cannot improve the behavior of welfare...
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