In his speech on inequality Barack Obama said it’s also true that some programs in the past, like welfare before it was reformed, were sometimes poorly designed, created disincentives to…

Just read Bryce Covert’s excellent post criticizing welfare reform. It is too good to excerpt….

How much is a human life worth ? Michelle Chen links to and discusses a new study which concludes that welfare reform reduced life expectancy. I am reminded of an…

…many recipients. The rule was part of the 1996 welfare reform which didn’t just convert AFDC to TANF but also restricted food stamp eligibility. Who wants to tell me again…

Bryce Covert and Josh Israel report Last year, 11,717 low-income residents of Mississippi applied to get a meager government benefit to help them make ends meet. The state’s welfare program,…

…welfare that they have always wanted.  Because they know how to get rid of welfare. At the same time, the bill would also raise the thresholds above which income including…

…Republican ‘welfare state’ attack, The Guardian, Gloria Oladipo. The governor there announced his decision, characterizing the decision as a way to reject “attempts to expand the welfare state.” Eligible families…

…but they often do, and this situation is not confined to production for export. Let’s not let a little evidence get in the way of their nice, neat theorems, however….

…how important and innovative so much of it was. I shall not list all these areas and theorems and discoveries as it is a long list that will probably be…

…relative to the total, where your sample is non-random, where your observations are not independent, the Central Limit and Gauss-Markov theorems are of little use. Yes, taking averages and least-squares…