…progress. I totally absolutely utterly disagree as I explain after the jump. I can’t say how strongly I disagree with you about welfare reform. I note that welfare is still…

…trillion annually on social welfare benefits, this is peanuts. It’s not money that prevents us from addressing deep poverty, it’s political preference. Welfare reform was very deliberately crafted to reduce…

…welfare economics ( which is an approach to social welfare often considered to underestimate the importance of equality). So far, there is no hint of any reason why the incentive…

Robert Waldmann I argued that the conventional view that welfare reform was a success is based on the coincidence that the economy boomed right after welfare war reformed, the journalists…

…caused by welfare reform dwarfs US deaths caused by al Qaeda, plus the decision to invade Iraq, plus murder. Defenders of welfare reform must critique the study to which I…

…to turn Social Security into welfare . . . that is, “make the rich pay.” Ms Altman knows, FDR deliberately designed SS not to be welfare “so no damn politician…

…(and irritating) waste of time. Any discussion should start with all cases in which there are solid theorems. In fact this begins and ends with the Neyman-Pearson theorem and the…

by Linda Beale Social Security/Medicare vs Corporate Welfare The denouement of the fiscal cliff debate behind us (and not, I regret, with the best results–more on that later) we now…

…tax breaks are nothing more than welfare payments to private enterprise. Opponents of social welfare spending defend these outlays with as much passion as they bring to their attempts to…

by cactus The TARP and the Welfare Queens Yves Smith had a post up yesterday entitled Quelle Surprise! Big Banks Who Got TARP Funds Reduced Lending. It’s worth a read,…