What Bill Gates Got Right on Welfare Reform
Bill Gates shared some insightful comments on welfare reform in an interview last month with Rolling Stone. “Why aren’t the technocrats taking the poverty programs,… Read More
Tackling Welfare: For People and the Corporations They Form
The first step toward solving a problem is admitting you have a problem. Representative Paul Ryan (R–WI) and the House Budget Committee recently took that… Read More
A Swedish (Economic) Lesson for President Obama in One Chart
President Obama is making the first ever bilateral visit to Sweden by a sitting U.S. President. As The Heritage Foundation and Swedish think tank Timbro… Read More
Health CareNews
900,000 Reasons Obamacare Is Bad: Moving Americans from Work to Welfare
Obamacare is not only hurting small businesses and economic growth. It might also give nearly a million low-income individuals a reason to leave work for… Read More
SocietyNews
101 Million Americans Received Food Aid Last Year
Nearly one-third of Americans received government-funded food aid in 2012, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). As Heritage Foundation… Read More
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Frederick Douglass: From Slavery to Freedom to Statuesque
The only thing that’s really surprising is that it took so long. Lawmakers recently unveiled a statue of Frederick Douglass in the Emancipation Hall of… Read More
Heritage Responds to Senator Rubio on Immigration Study
The Heritage Foundation has issued the following statement in response to Senator Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) comments about our new study on the cost of amnesty…. Read More
Health CareNews
Critics Looking at Old Data Instead of New Heritage Research on Amnesty
Some proponents of comprehensive immigration reform (including amnesty) are trying to find support for their position in Heritage Foundation papers from long ago. In the… Read More
What Conservatives Are For
Politeness is engrained in civil society. But sometimes, in order to make progress, you’ve got to dare to ask the questions that make people uncomfortable…. Read More
What the Left Misunderstands about Poverty and Dependency
Jim DeMint kicked off his first day as President of the Heritage Foundation with a letter celebrating the American spirit and lamenting the damage done to… Read More
