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Not sure why people still view the 90s "welfare reform" as a success, because whenever I look into it the results seem lackluster.
A step in the *wrong* direction, and I never see how the upsides aren't present in the form of flat cheques.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25527.pdf
A step in the *wrong* direction, and I never see how the upsides aren't present in the form of flat cheques.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25527.pdf
"Overall, the findings from this study suggest that while welfare reform may have had favorable effects on social behaviors of mothers (at least in terms of reduced crime and increased civic participation in the form of voting, the only social outcomes previously studied in this-
context), the intergenerational effects on social behavior were not favorable, particularly for boys, and may have hindered the affected youths’ socioeconomic trajectories.
90s analysis always seems a bit weird since there was a tech boom, relatively tighter labour markets, no real debt concerns and crime was moving down in general.
But there's a lot of "meh' in that era that gets glossed over because what I mentioned above occurred.
But there's a lot of "meh' in that era that gets glossed over because what I mentioned above occurred.
More importantly,
The results from this study do not support culture of poverty arguments that requiring poor mothers to work
would make the next generation more responsible and suggest that the social gains of welfare reform for women have come at a cost to the next -
The results from this study do not support culture of poverty arguments that requiring poor mothers to work
would make the next generation more responsible and suggest that the social gains of welfare reform for women have come at a cost to the next -
generation, particularly to boys who have been falling behind girls in terms of high school completion for decades (Murnane 2013)
The cost of a child is a *leading* reason people have abortions.
Expensing child cost is good for the prolife movement. The prolife movement in the U.S. suffers from a focus on punishment while weirdly opposing measures that decrease abortions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5957082/
Expensing child cost is good for the prolife movement. The prolife movement in the U.S. suffers from a focus on punishment while weirdly opposing measures that decrease abortions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5957082/
And I'm not claiming they should shift away front the punishment angle,(even though I personally think they should, but I understand religious arguements etc), but these policies are no brainers. 
Lastly, linking this old thread. https://twitter.com/nominalthoughts/status/1352670435943579649?s=20
