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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 Biden's 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 negatively affected on their applications if they have used public programs such as the Supplemental Nutr...
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. Johnson, published “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.” At that time, 25% of blacks w...
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 ancient Israelites. They saw themselves as active agents of divine providence."[3] Today, he adds, ...
>> 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 doesn't 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 streets. it could be construed as recruitment. >> we would never want anybody