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The Food Stamp Economy Thu Jan 10

Larry Elder

The New York Post headline read: "Could You Spend $500 on Food at This Bodega? A Welfare Recipient Claimed To!" A few days later, another headline: "Welfare Recipients Take Out Cash at Strip Clubs, Liquor Stores and X-Rated Shops." "They're on the dole -- and watching the pole," wrote the Post. "Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip clubs -- where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than diapers." ... more
Your Money at Work: Welfare Cash Spent on Strippers, Booze and Porn Shops Mon Jan 7

Katie Pavlich
Number of Americans on Food Stamps Hit Another Record High Mon Dec 10

Katie Pavlich
The American Welfare State Fri Dec 7

Linda Chavez

Throughout the presidential campaign, Republican candidates pointed to the number of food stamp recipients -- increasing from 33 million people in 2009 to 43 million in 2012 -- as a sign that poverty had skyrocketed under President Obama. But a new study suggests that the reason there has been such an increase in food stamp recipients during the last four years is even more pernicious. ... more
"Poor" Households Getting $168 in Welfare Per Day from Taxpayers Fri Dec 7

Katie Pavlich
Progressives Support Welfare for the Rich Wed Dec 5

Jacob Sullum

Since Republicans are pushing entitlement reform and Democrats like taking money from rich people, you might think they could agree on means-testing Medicare and Social Security as part of a deficit reduction deal. ... more
How Liberals Argue: Food Stamps Stimulate the Economy Thu Nov 29

Katie Pavlich
Obamacare And The New Corporate Welfare Sun Nov 25

Austin Hill

How do companies make millions of dollars with a really bad idea? They advise state governments on how to comply with federal Obamacare mandates, and then help the states build new websites. ... more
Breitbart: More People on Food Stamps Than Populations of 24 States Combined Sat Nov 24

Leah Barkoukis
DHS Promotes Gov’t Handouts to Immigrants on its Website Sat Nov 24

New York

Is this the new American Dream? ... more
A National Crisis in Character Mon Nov 19

Star Parker

Here’s an excerpt from a letter I received the other day from a college professor ... more
S.E. Cupp Takes on Liberal Nun During ‘The Cycle’ Fri Nov 16

America

Watch Cupp go head-to-head with Sister Simone Campbell on the issues of poverty and welfare in America ... more
How to Explain to a Child Why Entitlements are Corrupting America Fri Nov 9

America

AEI: "In "A Nation of Takers," author Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute draws on an impressive array of data to detail the exponential growth in America's entitlement spending..." ... more
Merkel coalition agrees welfare changes as poll looms Mon Nov 5

Reuters News
Merkel coalition agrees welfare changes as poll looms Sun Nov 4

Reuters News
India risks backlash hurrying through overdue welfare reform Thu Oct 25

Reuters News
Is Obama Buying the Election With His Welfare Explosion? Sat Oct 20

Larry Kudlow

Remember Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's close aid? It was Hopkins who argued tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect. Sound familiar? ... more
Three Headlines Obama Doesn't Want You To See Fri Oct 19

Guy Benson
Welfare Spending Up 32% in Last 4 Years Thu Oct 18

Heather Ginsberg
UK's Osborne to slash welfare but quiet on growth Mon Oct 8

Reuters News
Osborne to slash welfare after next election Mon Oct 8

Reuters News
UK's Conservatives say to slash welfare after next election Mon Oct 8

Reuters News
Food Stamps - The Black Hole You Enter and Never Exit Mon Oct 8

Bruce Bialosky

Have you heard the rumor that the number of food stamp recipients has increased during President Obama’s term from 28.2 million to 46.6 million? Have you heard that in only three years, the annual cost of the program, which was already astronomical at $35 billion, has soared to $76 billion? ... more
Preserving an Endangered Institution Sat Oct 6

Ed Feulner

“Marriage is a wonderful institution,” H.L. Mencken once quipped, “but who would want to live in an institution?” Great line. But in the real world, the more we learn about marriage, the more we realize how vital it is. ... more
Debunking Obama’s Flawed Assertions on Tax Deductions and Corporate Welfare Fri Oct 5

Daniel J. Mitchell

I was irked by Obama’s illiteracy on the matter of business deductions for corporate jets, oil companies, and firms that “ship jobs overseas.” ... more
The Moral Argument Must Be Made Thu Sep 27

Jackie Gingrich Cushman

The Obama administration's policies are bad. Bad in the sense that the policies are morally corrupting. They take money and control away from people and give them to government bureaucrats, who then decide what should be done. The policies encourage people to be less responsible personally and to rely more on the government. ... more