All Articles tagged welfare

• Book Reviews
  July 29, 2023 CDT
  Book Review: The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate
  Morgan Reynolds

  Gramm, Ekelund, and Early's important new book shows how government agencies ignore welfare benefits and taxes when calculating actual income, resulting in overblown poverty and inequality numbers.

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• Book Reviews
  December 08, 2020 CDT
  Book Review: “From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America”
  Tate Fegley

  Tate Fegley reviews Elizabeth Hinton's book on mass incarceration, finding in it a good overview of US criminal justice from Kennedy to Reagan, but no clear, discernible thesis.

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• Articles
  June 17, 2019 CDT
  Beginning the Welfare State: Civil War Veterans’ Pensions
  Murray Rothbard

  Never-before-published essay from Murray Rothbard on one of the first significant welfare programs in the United States: pensions to Union war veterans.

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• Book Reviews
  April 15, 2019 CDT
  Review of Cogan, The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs
  Mark Thornton

  Mark Thornton reviews John Cogan's history of failed entitlement programs in the US, from veterans' benefits of the War for Independence to today's damaging but inexorably expanding welfare programs.

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