Commentary The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has just released its latest projection for the next ten years. “In the agency’s updated projections, annual deficits nearly double over the next decade, reaching $2.7 trillion in 2033 …. As a result of those deficits, debt held by the public also increases in CBO’s projections, from 98% of…

Social workers told a subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee that work requirements in the Temporary Aid for Need Families (TANF) program doesn’t fully capture everything a client is doing to pull themselves out of poverty. “You can job search for 86 hours in a month, but it doesn’t measure what the customer…

LONDON—A psychotic man who tried to kill a social worker who was conducting welfare checks on three children who were being home schooled during a COVID-19 lockdown has been given an indefinite hospital and restriction order. Sulai Man, 34, was convicted in October of the attempted murder of 61-year-old Themba Nkomo, who was attacked in…

If the government reduced taxes and reduced welfare benefits more gradually, more Quebecers receiving social support would join the workforce, suggests a study released Monday by the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI), a public policy think tank with offices in Montreal and Calgary. The study said the current welfare system “encourages long-term dependency through perverse economic…

Wisconsin voters will have a chance to weigh in on whether they support a look-for-work requirement for able-bodied childless applicants in order for them to collect welfare checks. The Republican-controlled legislative assembly recently voted along party lines to approve a resolution that adds an advisory referendum to the upcoming April election ballot. “Shall able-bodied, childless…

An estimated 7 million American men have given up on finding jobs. This is being blamed on a combination of socialist policies, where high taxes eat away at income and where welfare in many states pays more than most jobs. Meanwhile, there is an ongoing effort to criminalize “hate” speech. Yet the definitions of this,…

An estimated 7 million American men have given up on finding jobs. This is being blamed on a combination of socialist policies, where high taxes eat away at income and where welfare in many states pays more than most jobs. Meanwhile, there is an ongoing effort to criminalize “hate” speech. Yet the definitions of this,…

An estimated 7 million American men have given up on finding jobs. This is being blamed on a combination of socialist policies, where high taxes eat away at income and where welfare in many states pays more than most jobs. Meanwhile, there is an ongoing effort to criminalize “hate” speech. Yet the definitions of this,…

An estimated 7 million American men have given up on finding jobs. This is being blamed on a combination of socialist policies, where high taxes eat away at income and where welfare in many states pays more than most jobs. Meanwhile, there is an ongoing effort to criminalize “hate” speech. Yet the definitions of this,…

Welfare payouts for a family of four exceed the national median household income in 24 states, and top $100,000 annually in Washington, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, a new study finds. Many pandemic-related unemployment subsidies have expired, but existing programs coupled with a recent expansion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—also known as “Obamacare”—continue to offer…