Tag Archives: Ron Haskins

The New America Foundation: Lara Burt: TANF & Teachers: How Current Policies Are Keeping Single Mothers Down and Out of School

Source:The New Democrat It’s not that TANF or the Temporary Assistance For Needy Families, hasn’t succeed, because it has. Take away the Great Recession and we’re not looking at a twenty-percent poverty rate today, because under TANF low-income parents are … Continue reading

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Conservable Economist: Timothy Taylor- Twenty Years Since The Welfare Reform of 1996

Source:The New Democrat Tim Taylor, makes some great points about the timing that Welfare to Work was done in 1996. The economy started booming again in 1994. The budget deficit was falling, unemployment was dropping. But we’ve had good economic … Continue reading

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Brookings Institution: Ron Haskins: $2 a Day, A More Complete Picture

Source:The New Democrat  I agree with Ron Haskins here that when today’s Progressives say that Americans in poverty only live on $2 a day, they tend to leave out things like public housing, food assistance, Medicaid to use as examples. … Continue reading

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Human Events: John Stossel: ‘The Economy Needs no Conductor’

Source:The FreeState There’s been this endless debate in America in the last few years about what creates economic and job growth. Is it the private sector or public sector. Does government actually create any jobs, well the answer to that … Continue reading

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The Nation: Bryce Covert: We’re Punishing Poor Mothers For Our Own Failures

Source:The New Democrat The Nation: Opinion: Bryce Covert: We’re Arresting Poor Mothers For Our Own Failures I actually agree with Bryce Covert that if we are going require Welfare mothers (for lack of a better term) single mothers on Welfare … Continue reading

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Brookings Institution: Ron Haskins: America’s Welfare Transformation

Source:FreeState Now In 1996, a Republican Congress and President Bill Clinton made Welfare to Work the law of the country. Requiring people who are collecting Welfare Insurance to prepare themselves to go to work, go to school, go back to … Continue reading

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