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Cash Welfare
August 20, 2021
Bryce Covert
The End of “the End of Welfare As We Know It”
We might be witnessing the demise—in uneven fits and starts—of Democrats’ poisonous “reform” thinking. All it took was a global health catastrophe.
February 5, 2021
Bryce Covert
It’s a Joke to Let Mitt Romney Set the Horizon on Child Poverty
The Utah senator’s plan for a basic income for families is an improvement on what’s out there. It’s also an incredibly narrow vision of what the government can do for the most vulnerable.
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