…other things, a debunking of the NY Times’ frequent calls for Europeans to work harder, roll back their welfare state, and generally act more like Americans. I’m not sure if…

…cut taxes for the wealthy while cutting benefits for the poor. The ideological right talks about benefits for the poor as “welfare” but never talks about the tax expenditures for…

…economy improve every consumer’s welfare but most forms of higher labor standards improve welfare for only a subgroup. If we look at a minimum wage, for example, most people work…

Hilary W. Hoynes, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Douglas Almond made a genuinely important contribution to the debate on the effects of social welfare programs in this NBER working paper/revised manuscript “Long…

It has been the political right’s mantra of welfare and charity being best done by private organizations rather than be government sponsored. 50 years have passed since President Johnson declared…

…turning Social Security into welfare paid for by a huge tax increase on “the rich.” And it would encourage the rest of us to expect to have our needs paid…

…because of the conditions prevailing in this State the general welfare requires that the water resources of the State be put to beneficial use to the fullest extent of which…

…Ranch operated one “picture perfect” farm with about 400 animals in Sonora, Calif. This farm, the group said, was certified “5+” in an animal-welfare system adopted by Whole Foods. (“Step…

…more important than the welfare of the non rich (I am not exaggerating google “Money metric welfare”). But it is also based on confident assertions on matters of fact which…

…employment opportunities, and were less likely to receive welfare assistance than natives. Finally, the children of immigrants were even more successful than their parents. The empirical evidence, therefore, painted a…