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Voices across the political spectrum question dependency culture
Tweet In The New York Times, columnist Nicholas D. Kristof makes an uncomfortable point: This is painful for a liberal to admit, but conservatives have a point when they suggest that America’s safety net can sometimes entangle people in a … Continue reading
Poverty’s elephant in the room
Tweet One core advantage of religious and other private charity over government welfare is that it is more likely to address the elephant in the room in discussions of poverty: marriage and family structure. The Department of Workforce Services report … Continue reading
Intergenerational poverty, taxation and the Scrooge response
Tweet Earlier this week I spoke at an important conference on intergenerational poverty in Salt Lake City. Karen Crompton of Voices for Utah Children and State Senator Stuart Reid organized the conference and invited my participation as a follow-up to … Continue reading
Romney, Obama and the 'takers'
Tweet Like many Americans by now, I listened to the recording of Mitt Romney talk about the “47 percent.” While there are some things to criticize about what Romney said, I have to admit that after I listened to him … Continue reading
Government welfare and moral excellence
Tweet The great demographer Nicholas Eberstadt recently wrote in The Wall Street Journal about the dramatic explosion in the receipt of government welfare. His concluding paragraphs: The prospect of careening along an unsustainable economic road is deeply disturbing. But another … Continue reading
Utah's Reid shows leadership on intergenerational poverty
Tweet Utah State Senator Stuart Reid is providing important leadership on a crucial issue — intergenerational poverty. The 1990s saw a major effort to reform public welfare through work requirements for welfare recipients. This effort had merit, but Senator Reid … Continue reading
Posted in Poverty
Tagged children, divorce, family, Legislature, marriage, SB 37, sb37, Stuart Reid, unwed parenting, welfare
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One more hidden cost of welfare?
Tweet As we’ve noted before, government welfare programs generally carry a hidden cost beyond that paid by taxpayers – a cost paid by the recipients, in whom dependency and a loss of independence are fostered. An interesting new study … Continue reading
Costs of Dependency
Tweet Like the poor, the debate over what to do about poverty we will always have with us. Recently, unsustainable federal budget deficits have reawakened the controversy because it now seems clear that (since payments to individuals make up … Continue reading
Posted in Poverty, Self-reliance, Welfare
Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, entitlements, Mark Steyn, poverty, taxes, Theodore Dalrymple, welfare
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Stepping up as conservatives to help Utahns in need
Tweet While I was waiting for a flight out of Salt Lake City, a young man, waiting for the same flight, sat down next to me and initiated a conversation. I soon found out that “Theo” was headed to … Continue reading
Posted in Charity Care, Health Care, Poverty
Tagged authentic charity care, health care, poverty, welfare
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