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FILTER RESULTS ►Congressman Justifies Huge Food Stamp Cuts: Recipients Are ‘Dependency Class’
The House Agriculture Committee approved a farm bill late Wednesday night that would cut federal food stamps more steeply than any legislation since the welfare reforms of the 1990s. A Democratic amendment to strip $20.5 billion in Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) cuts was defeated by a 27-17 vote, after more than an hour of [...]
Cruz Seeks to Permanently Block Illegal Immigrants from All Welfare
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) aims to block any illegal immigrant from ever receiving any state, local, or federal welfare or public benefits with a series of amendments to the immigration reform bill currently under review in the U.S. Senate. Show More Summary
Choosing Amnesty over Welfare Reform
Brother Foster argues on the homepage that the various immigration factions on the right agree that immigration reform and welfare reform be combined: Amend the Gang of Eight bill to include means-testing, market-like competition, and...Show More Summary
Robert Rector’s Study: Open Borders + Welfare State = Disaster
We’ve noted many times throughout the debate over amnesty that you simply cannot legalize so many low-skilled people without reforming the welfare state. Some people don’t like to hear it, but the reality of today’s redistributive society...Show More Summary
Back to the future
Back in the 1980s, there was a constant stream of international delegations to Wellington, seeking to learn from the “New Zealand miracle”, in which a group of radical free-market reformers turned around a sclerotic welfare state. While the results had yet to show themselves, everyone was confident that NZ would soon surpass Australia, where the [...]
What A Political Battle Between Eye Doctors In Louisiana Says About The Future Of Health Care Reform
Forget congressional quibbling in Washington. One of the most telling fights over the future of U.S. health care is actually taking place right now in Louisiana. Last week, the Louisiana House Committee on Health and Welfare advanced HB 527 to consideration by the full House. If passed, the controversial and heavily-lobbied legislation would redefine “optometrists” [...]
Immigration Reform Should Avoid a Credential Fetish: A Respone to NRO's Reihan Salam
Over at NRO, Reihan Salam offered a
wo-part
response to my recent Bloomberg View
piece on why opposition to low-skilled immigrants because
hey’ll strain the welfare system is based more on myth than fact.
Salam, who is in favor of looser...Show More Summary
The Fundamental Flaws with Comprehensive Immigration Deform
There’s one overarching problem with all of the proposals for comprehensive immigration reform. They are being drafted by the same La Raza/big labor/big corporate welfare coalition that blew up our immigration system and engenderedShow More Summary
Reform Social Security Disability
Back during the presidential campaign, Mitt Romney tried to make the argument that President Obama was soft on welfare reform. He missed the target. Welfare abuse has shifted to Social Security Disability. Chuck Lane has a very good column about this new form of abuse in the Washington Post today. Show More Summary
As polls back welfare reform, Miliband sticks to bashing rich
Labour leader concentrates on the 'unfair' tax cuts for those earning more than £150,000 a year
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ED MILIBAND this morning brushed aside the disarray in his own party over welfare...Show More Summary
The Welfare Mission
When George Osborne became Shadow Chancellor he made Welfare Reform one of his primary issues to focus on when in Government. Along with Iain Duncan-Smith, they worked on what would become Universal Credit which has had a difficult birth as a Government policy. The past week, more so than ever, with Osborne pointing towards the [...]
It’s About Welfare Reform, Not the Sequester
The sequester is forcing devastating cuts on the nation’s welfare system at a time of record poverty levels — or so shouts a recent Associated Press dispatch, magnified with glee by overseas media. But let’s put this in perspective. Keep reading this post...
Welfare and Benefits
The debate over welfare benefits is beginning to set Labour into something of a spin - as the party struggles to explain how it can be in favour of reform when: Labour did nothing to reform the welfare system while in government forShow More Summary
If stepping up the rhetoric on welfare was supposed to boost CON poll ratings it has yet to work
Welfare reform is only important electorally if it impacts on voting behaviour & so far we’ve seen no evidence of that — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) April 7, 2013 Ukip equal highest levels with both YouGov and Opinium New Opinium/Observer online poll without past vote weighting – LAB 38, CON28, UKIP 17, LD 8% — Mike [...]
It isn't heartless to want to reform welfare. It would be heartless not to try
No one should have to live like this. In an article in Saturday’s Telegraph, Joe Shute reports on families trying to eke out an existence on £55 per week – and it makes for difficult reading. Every spare penny goes on food, most of it of poor quality (“I only eat one meal a day. [...]
Progress Report
I thought I'd publish a previous post form the blog site - from little more than a year ago - when I wrote about the Labour party reviewing policies on welfare reform and the benefits culture. Now if anything useful has come out of this policy review process, then you're much better informed than me - though I am keeping my ear to the ground. Show More Summary
Why don’t Labour talk about welfare reform?
Philip Collins is shackled by the epithet ‘Tony Blair’s former speechwriter’; shackled because his columns prove him to be his own man. His latest (£) is a carefully argued critique… Continue reading The post Why don’t Labour talk about welfare reform? appeared first on Spectator Blogs.
Is disability the new welfare?
The government in Britain recently did something interesting. It asked everyone receiving an “incapacity benefit” — a disability program slowly being phased out under new reforms — to submit to a medical test to confirm they were too disabled to work. Show More Summary
IMF sets terms of Cyprus bailout
The International Monetary Fund has demanded that Cyprus cut state pension costs and reform its welfare system as the price of a €1bn (£854m) loan to help bail out the stricken island....The deal, agreed in principle by the Cypriot government,...Show More Summary
You Try Living off $85 per week
As arguments continue over the government’s welfare reforms, one minister may be wondering whether opening his mouth on the subject was a good idea after all. Iain Duncan-Smith, the Work and Pensions secretary and former leader of the Conservatives during their baron years, reckons he can live on the equivalent of $85 a week (the [...]
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