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Welfare Reform

Watch a Live Debate on the Welfare State's Impact on the Poor

Neera Tanden from the Center for American Progress vs. Tarren Bragdon from the Foundation for Government Accountability.

Jim Epstein | 12.11.2017 6:45 PM

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Fifteen million able-bodied adults on government welfare would have a better chance at economic betterment if they were taken off welfare.

That's the subject of a debate happening right now at the Soho Forum between Neera Tanden from the Center for American Progress and Tarren Bragdon from the Foundation for Government Accountability. Watch below, and submit questions in the Facebook comments. We'll read aloud a couple of the best during the Q&A session.

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Jim Epstein is executive editor of Reason.

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