More than 35 million Americans have incomes that fall below the poverty line, and more than one in five American children are poor. In 1994, nearly half of all poor children under the age of six lived in families with incomes falling below half of the...

Welfarism is a vague, and often pejorative, political reference to the principles behind the welfare state. It does no more than indicate that the beliefs so characterized hold that the state should take responsibility for the financial security of...

Welfarism is a form of consequentialism. Like all forms of consequentialism, welfarism is based on the premise that actions, policies, and/or rules should be evaluated on the basis of their consequences. Welfarism is the view that the morally...

WELFARE Mayor doesn't want to expand benefits Thursday, March 22, 2001 No one has sought to end welfare more aggressively, or more vocally, than Milwaukee Mayor John O. Norquist. That's why I was surprised to read Julie Czerwinski's claim that the...

THE WELFARE bill that Congress passed last year will do many useful things, but a new study warns that there is one thing it is likely not to do-move many people quickly off the rolls. The legislation requires the states to create new...

Wade Horn, the Bush administration's point man for welfare reform, Head Start and abstinence education, resigned Monday as assistant secretary for children and families.In the Department of Health and Human Services, Horn oversaw a $46 billion budget and 65 programs that serve vulnerable children and...

Eleven years after Congress changed welfare to focus on work, some states are sidestepping the rules by starting their own welfare programs.They're shifting around existing accounts so their most vulnerable residents don't have to meet work requirements. In the process they're making it easier for...

“We do indeed need to end welfare—but as poor single mothers experience it, not as middle-class moralizers imagine it.” —Gwendolyn Mink, 1998 “The success of welfare reform demonstrates that failed liberal policies . . ....