Welfare
Surveillance, Snitching, and Social Services
What were the actual effects of the NYPD's Juvenile Robbery Intervention Program?
It's Winter! Time to Intern the Homeless!
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to force homeless people into shelters.
Finland Wants to Replace Welfare Programs With a Minimum Income for All Residents
The basic-income scheme is meant to save Finland money and reduce the country's high unemployment rate.
"Don't Ban Smoking in Public Housing"
Proposed rule treats poor people like children and exposes government paternalism at its most naked.
HUD Proposes Nationwide Smoking Ban in Public Housing
This is class-based paternalism in action.
The Cult of Victims
Attaching attention and moral status to "victimhood" is changing the character of the nation.
The Continuing Convergence of the Welfare State and the Criminal Justice System
Public defenders increasingly act like social workers, and welfare providers increasingly act like law enforcement.
How the Great Society Paved the Way for Modern Mass Incarceration
Lyndon Johnson's war on crime
Liberal Writer Worries Large Minimum Wage Hike Could Hurt Poor People. You Don't Say.
Government intervention is never the panacea some on the left want to believe.
Giving Kids 'Help' At the End of a Gun
Defenders of the status quo push back against a Colorado proposal to decriminalize truancy.
Middle Class Incomes and the Economic Productivity Conundrum
Median household incomes would have been double: Roughly $100,000 rather than $50,000
Reform Conservatism Won't End the Liberal Welfare State, It'll Reinvent it
Policy prescriptions that offer a rewarmed mix of old and new liberal ideas
Shikha Dalmia on Reform Conservatism and the Triumph of Liberalism
New conservatives have given up on scaling back the welfare state
Obama's Mission: Increase Dependence
Americans are not yet that dependent upon the providence of their sovereign for their existence. But don't blame the president for lack of trying.
Obama's Plan to Help the Poor is to Make Government Bigger. Paul Ryan's Plan is to Make It Better.
Both want to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). But Ryan's plan would reform the system rather than grow it.
Massive Scale of Improper Payments Show Govt is Too Big NOT to Fail
Medicare may be making mistakes 20% of the time, school lunch programs 15%, and the Earned Income Tax Credit 25%.
Libertarians Debate Basic Income Guarantee
Should libertarians support proposals to scrap the current welfare regime and replace it with a basic income guarantee for American citizens?
Paul Ryan's Poverty Plan: Good on Incarceration, Licensing, Perverse Incentives; Not So Good on Paternalism
What's worthwhile in the Wisconsin congressman's proposals, and what's not
Obama Just Found a Way to Make College Even More Expensive
The President's new College Scorecard will jack up federal taxpayer subsidies without improving accountability or reducing the soaring costs of tuition.
A Serious Anti-Poverty Agenda Has to Include Criminal Justice Reform
Civil society vs. the law
Baltimore Mayor to Curfew Foes: Go Live On a Farm
The shaky case for government-imposed teen curfews
Time for a Guaranteed Income?
The pros and cons of a welfare idea championed by liberals and libertarians alike
The GOP's Botched Plan on Immigration and Welfare
Poised to take the Senate, Republicans spurn newcomers while embracing handouts, surveilance for natives.
Big Government Fans Rally Around the Surveillance State
One cannot critique the surveillance state without critiquing the rest of the existing political apparatus.
Politifact Trashes Maddow's Claim of Koch Involvement in Fla. Drug-Testing Program
Guilt by association taken to the Nth degree
Florida Judge Rules Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Unconstitutional: Nothing So Immediate About Government Interest in Drug Free Recipients That Warrants Suspending Fourth Amendment
In three months, less than 3 percent of tested recipients tested positive
