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It’s designed to be a guaranteed minimum income for people with kids, and it’s projected to slash childhood poverty. But critics say it amounts to no-strings-attached welfare.

email article WASHINGTON -- President Bidens executive order asking three federal agencies to review the "public charge" rule drew plaudits from several health policy experts, while others decried the move as a step in the wrong direction. The public charge rule, part of the Immigration and Nationality Act, was issued in October 2020 by the Department of Homeland Security. It states that immigrants who are applying for a permanent residency "green card" or for citizenship will be negati...

By Larry Elder America has witnessed months of civil unrest in cities around America following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Many of the protesters decry income and net worth “inequality.” But the most serious “inequality” is the unequal percentage of fathers in black households, a phenomenon that has been encouraged by government policies that normalize and reward out-of-wedlock births. In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, assistant secretary of Labor to President Lyndon B. Jo...

Toggle open close By extolling freedom of religion in the schools, President Bill Clinton has raised the level of debate on the importance of religion to American life.[2] The time is ripe for a deeper dialogue on the contribution of religion to the welfare of the nation. America has always been a religious country. "Its first Christian inhabitants were only too anxious to explain what they were doing and why," explains historian Paul Johnson. "In a way the first American settlers were like the...

>> if joe berg is the advocate of food stamps robert rector is the great sceptic. >> the hunter advocates are distorting the data and causing a huge mirage that doesnt exist. it distracts from how you help the poor and make them more dependent on government. >> 80 percent of the coalition who turn his coalition to help are ult imately approved. some never thought they would be eligible. >> she can still apply for her daughter. >> stop and explain food stamps to just about everybody on the street...

You know the only people who believe that? right there. right there. >> robert rector told us that amnesty costs a fortune. amnesty could also cost something more than just money. it could cost a nation. >> dont come in to be a taker. come in to be a giver. and if youll come in to be a giver, give us your tired, your poor, because well give you a chance to work. but we should not be giving a chance to be a taker. >> wow. that was a rally on capitol hill today hosted by conservative republicans a...

That a person who has less than a high school education pays more in taxes than they get in government benefits. you know the only people who believe that? right there. right there. >> robert rector told us that amnesty costs a fortune. amnesty could also cost something more than just money. it could cost a nation. >> dont come in to be a taker. come in to be a giver. and if youll come in to be a giver, give us your tired, your poor, because well give you a chance to work. but we should not be g...

That really doesnt occur anymore in our society. >> perhaps not getting the resources to those who truly need it the most. robert rector, senior fellow at the heritage foundation. thank you for being on this morning. >> thank you. >> coming up on the show, its been over a month since they met with fema and the president, but the sandy victims havent seen any help just yet. >> and i told president obama, you told us you were going to cut the red tape. and i told him, the middle class getting the ...

Robert rector writes facts about the poor. this was posted about a year ago. the chart shows the percent of households with certain amendties. 92 pkts have microwaves. 50% have internet service. 33% have a big screen or plasma lcd. the argument there is, how can someone be poor if they have a television set? steve, let me get your take on this because you work in an area of extreme poverty and i would imagine that a tv set, one way or another is not going to help you get out of poverty. >> let m...

Consider this, this weeks teacher strike in chicago, more than 25,000 chicago teachers went on trike over a mere yad of issues, not the least of which are the teaching conditions in chicago schools. the strike exposed the battle lines between the movement and educators fighting against high stakes testing and a better approach to measuring school performance. driving the battle is educational outcomes to improve economic things for kids. it is always education, which is first and often only ment...