Joe Manchin Isn't the Fiscal Conservative We Need, but He's the Best We've Got
"Spending trillions more on new and expanded government programs, when we can't even pay for the essential social programs...is the definition of fiscal insanity."
"Spending trillions more on new and expanded government programs, when we can't even pay for the essential social programs...is the definition of fiscal insanity."
Biden's American Families Plan would put most working-age American households on the dole.
Growing evidence confirms that barriers to immigration make us all worse off.
The idea of attaching fewer strings to government assistance is gaining currency.
Even the president's most entrenched political opposition cannot seem to find much to engage or enrage.
Unemployment is falling but fraudulent jobless claims are still skyrocketing in some places.
Using the process of elimination, the culprit seems clear.
Urban Democrats may be leading the charge, but Republicans, too, have enlisted.
No country gets out of poverty through redistribution of income.
More Puerto Ricans live in the 50 states than on the island, and it’s not hard to see why.
The government's coronavirus-related unemployment benefits are encouraging some to stay unemployed.
In response to Biden's child tax credits, Sen. Josh Hawley proposes paying parents $1,000 per month—if they're married—and $500 per month if they're single.
From protests to the coronavirus, it thinks it can protect you from anything.
The jury is still out about whether broad parental subsidies improve outcomes for children
The pandemic relief bill isn't just a one-time splurge. It's the start of a new era of federal spending.
The tech billionaire isn't alone among the mega-wealthy in getting piles of money from government at all levels, say the authors of Welfare for the Rich.
In most circumstances, parents would be eligible to receive $3,000 per child annually, doled out in monthly checks. It could be a major overhaul of how the federal government handles welfare.
Maxine Eichner's The Free-Market Family laments the bad public policy that makes it hard for parents to juggle work and child care, but often arrives at the wrong solutions.
In a new documentary, Steele argues that the "story of victimization" was an attempt to "win power."
A new documentary argues that Great Society liberalism laid the foundation for 2014's police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
How politicians used the drug war and the welfare state to break up black and Native American families
A Harvard study's findings show how not to fight the restrictionist disinformation campaign.
Historian Amity Shlaes talks about the last time a president massively expanded the federal government to help people.
Federal budget deficits continue to grow despite a thriving economy
This is why we can't have serious conversations about government spending.
The entrepreneur argued instead for a federal universal basic income proposal that would provide every American $1,000 a month.
Helpful analyses by David Bier of the Cato Institute and Reason's Shikha Dalmia explain why.
Only wealthy immigrants will have a clear shot at being admitted or staying.
They are letting President Trump's bogus anti-immigration narrative dominate their conversation
The number of people deemed to be living in extreme poverty was significantly inflated
Sugar subsidies are welfare for the rich. They cost consumers billions a year.
From "immigration, yes; welfare, no" to "welfare, whatever; immigration, no."
Johan Norberg's new documentary shows how the Nordic nation traded stagnant socialism for a modern mixed economy
He wants to screw all immigrants, regardless of status
The right has given up the pretense that it is only opposed to illegal immigration
A provincial minister said the basic-income experiment "was certainly not going to be sustainable."
What the late, great libertarian economist really said about immigration and welfare
Restrictionists have distorted and weaponized the late, great economist's views
Author Warren Farrell says welfare programs encourage fatherless households.
We don't need UBI to enable people to tell bosses to take the job and shove it.
"The rise of the Nordic welfare state has been a double-edged sword" for women's professional progress.
Poor people are likely to make better food choices for themselves than the government.
And, weirdly, grocery store cronyism might be the thing that stops it.
Abraham Lincoln couldn't have dreamed that 21st-century Americans would still be paying for pensions created under him.