Welfare State Archives

What Bill Gates Got Right on Welfare Reform

Caitlin Burke / April 30, 2014

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

Rich Tucker / March 27, 2014

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

Anthony B. Kim / Ryan Olson / September 04, 2013

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

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900,000 Reasons Obamacare Is Bad: Moving Americans from Work to Welfare

Riley Westmoreland / T. Elliot Gaiser / August 05, 2013

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

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101 Million Americans Received Food Aid Last Year

T. Elliot Gaiser / July 18, 2013

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

Rich Tucker / June 25, 2013

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

Amy Payne / May 08, 2013

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

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