Showing posts with label Poverty and Welfare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poverty and Welfare. Show all posts
Friday, August 7, 2026

Mamdani's "Free" Universal Childcare and What Happens Socialism Meets Economic Reality

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Socialists have a peculiar relationship with mathematics. Much like protectionists think that arithmetic is for globalists , socialists thin...
Monday, February 2, 2026

Immigrants Aren’t Draining Welfare: The Welfare State Is Draining America

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Immigration is one of those peculiar topics in US policy debates that produce durable myths. They sound like plausible claims in theory, but...
Monday, September 1, 2025

How the Government's War on Single-Room Occupancy Fueled the Housing Crisis

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Along with food and clothing, a roof over one's head has been considered one of the three fundamental needs for human survival. This rem...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

It Is Not a Snap Judgment to Criticize SNAP's Rising Overpayment Problem

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Everyone needs to eat. If people do not eat food, they die. It is part of why the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also kno...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

How Much of a Mixed Bag Is It That States Are Eliminating Their Grocery Taxes?

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Governments have a knack for taxing everything, from property , alcohol , and  millionaires to carbon , soft drinks , and  recycling . Yet ...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

Why In the World Is the U.S. Department of Agriculture Providing International Food Aid?

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Ever since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the rate of extreme poverty began to decline. There was a considerable decline start...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Generous Unemployment Benefits During the Pandemic Disincentivized People Looking for Work

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The pandemic came with the federal government spending so much money that it would have made Franklin D. Roosevelt blush. There was a lot of...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

SNAP Benefits Exacerbate Obesity and Diet-Related Disease: Can Something Be Done?

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The debt ceiling fight wages on in Congress. One of the items that is part of this fight is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)...
Monday, May 8, 2023

More Evidence Against Minimum Wage: Why Minimum Wage Fails to Reduce Poverty

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Bernie Sanders says the darnedest things. There have been a number of his proposals I have criticized over the years: single-payer healthcar...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

We Need to Strengthen Work Requirements in SNAP and Other Safety Net Programs

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The drama with the debt limit continues. The deadline to deal with the debt ceiling is in about two months. Biden wants a no-strings-attac...
Monday, May 16, 2022

5 Government Policies That Brought on the Baby Formula Shortage

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Taking care of a baby can be challenging with the sleepless nights and the demands on free time. In 2022, raising an infant has become more ...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

What's Causing the Shortage in the U.S. Labor Market?: Fall 2021 Edition

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2021 seems like it would be a better year than 2020. In spite of a Delta variant, we have safe and effective vaccines that have helped COVI...
Friday, May 7, 2021

The Latest Child Tax Credit Modifications Will Cost More Than a Pretty Penny: Let's Not Make Them Permanent

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Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel once say that you never let a crisis go to waste. The government certainly does that in respects to expand...