1. heritage.org

    Appropriate priorities for welfare reform are (1) insisting on budgeting transparency about the full costs of the 89 federal means-tested programs providing cash, food, housing, medical assistance ...
  2. Social safety nets worldwide routinely come under attack by critics wielding an argument that is as misleading as it is familiar. Measures such as subsidized health insurance, food and nutrition programs, and targeted cash payments to the poor, it is said, incentivize idleness, encourage freeloading, and create a culture of dependency.
  3. Waive that objection for a moment, however, and simply compare the number of poor people with the dollars spent to help them: You discover that, if we had taken that $317 billion annually in extra "social welfare" spending, and given it to the poor people, we could have given each of them an annual grant of $13,000—which is an income, for ...
  4. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    A similar conceptualization appeared in the popular debate over the 1996 welfare reform law and its subsequent discussion, where welfare "dependency"--meaning simply receiving benefits--was taken as an object of its own to be reduced, for its own sake, and independent of whether such reductions reduced the incomes of the poor.
  5. heritage.org

    The 1965 Moynihan Report pointed to the disintegration of family asa major cause of welfare dependence. Building on the 1996 welfarereform, programs like the federal Healthy Marriage Initiative ...
  6. daily.jstor.org

    Noting that welfare dependency theories often point to a weakening of "traditional values of individualism, freedom and self-determination," they considered statements about what makes someone a "true American" ("trying to get ahead on your own effort," "Believing in God," etc.) Secondly, they looked at questions about the state ...
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