Defending – Work & Opportunity
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Inside the federal government shutdown | Matt Weidinger
The federal government shutdown isn’t just a budget story, it’s a reflection of deeper challenges in how Congress governs.
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Rethinking welfare, upward mobility, and human dignity | Charles Murray
Most debates on poverty focus on small reforms to America’s welfare system. But what if the system itself is the problem?
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Should we reorient higher ed toward a skills-based economy?
How can we build a system that values all postsecondary pathways — whether academic or technical?
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Rethinking charity to provide dignity over dependency | James Whitford
What if the way we’ve been “helping” those in poverty actually makes things worse?
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Why Rep. Mike Kennedy Says Welfare Needs Stronger Work Requirements
Should federal welfare programs do more to promote work?
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Are ‘empowerment accounts’ the answer to poverty and self-sufficiency? With Vance Ginn
What if there were a more effective way to improve the prospects of families trying to escape poverty that would save taxpayer dollars?
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Rethinking poverty: Beyond material hardship to upward mobility, with Kevin Corinth
What if the way we think about – and talk about – poverty is all wrong?
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Could a smaller federal safety net save money while elevating work?
There’s a ferocious debate in Washington, D.C., right now over possible cuts to a variety of different programs in the federal government. So what does this mean for the federally funded social safety net?
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Work Disincentives and the Safety Net: Insights from the Atlanta Fed’s Alex Ruder
If you work harder and earn more, your family should be better off. But for some on the government safety net, that may not always be the case.
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How to empower those on the social safety net to pursue work and opportunity
America is the land of opportunity. So how should we respond when new evidence shows that some families actually feel discouraged from working harder for the American Dream?