…severely hampered by the Agriculture Department’s commodity farm program. As I’ve looked into the politics behind those restrictions, I’ve come to understand that this is precisely the outcome that the…

…program and stabilize its finances for future generations.He was unsuccessful in large part, I believe, because he made the finances of the Medicare program — which were in far worse…

…actively seeking to develop nuclear weapons. Bush’s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, said in a televised interview that the tubes “are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge programs.”…

…program and allow UN inspectors into the country, and was on the verge of getting North Korea to give up its long-range missile program. Bush failed to finish the deal…

…(FTP), a program that included many features of the later PRWORA, or the then-standard Aid for Families with Dependent Children welfare program (AFDC). Muennig and his colleagues looked at Social…

EPI’s Elise Gould reports on the impact of Social Security as a safety net keeping another 25 million people out of poverty….

…But it also highlights this: that the Republicans appear to be unaware that a large percentage of school-lunch-program or the food-stamp-program (or both) recipients come from households headed by someone…

…postive numbers indicate positive actuarial balances for the program in question over that period under that assumption and so represent a program that is “fixed” for the period in question….

…program is super popular) disabled (and that program is not hated) or very few and getting tiny checks. I am sure that welfare hatred is not based on knowing people…

This Burtless Brookings Blog post really is a must read. Burtless notes that taxes and transfers (including both ARRA and automatic responses to the recession) prevented huge income declines for…