Welfare: The Negative Societal Effects release_ywzku55qd5e6xl7womh4sq7guq

by Victoria Knight, David Simpson, Walter Block

Published in Acta Economica et Turistica by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.

2015   Issue 1-2, p77-93

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> The welfare system was instituted, presumably, to decrease poverty, increase the wealth and well-being of the poor. Paradoxically, it has had just about the opposite effect. How did this boomerang in public policy occur? It is simple. Welfare payments helped break up the family, disproportionately in the black community. But a non-intact family is one of the most effective causal agents in impoverishment. Hence, a program that throws massive amounts of money at poor people reduces their economic wellbeing, does not increase it.
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