ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Scholarly and In-Depth Studies > Private Charity and Welfare Reform

What history tells us about declining welfare caseloads
Source: Heartland Institute
Author: Robert Rector and Sarah Youssef
Country: United States

No sustained and significant declines in the AFDC caseload occurred at any point before the mid-1990s. Thus, claims that the recent unprecedented drop in dependence has largely been caused by the current economic expansion are not consistent with the historical record. (8/99)

Giving credit where credit is due
Source: The Beacon Hill Institute
Country: United States

A private welfare system -- made practical through tax credits -- would increase charitable giving, and permit individuals to direct their spending. (12/95)

Successful welfare reform requires state flexibility on the minimum wage
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: D. Mark Wilson
Country: United States

"Welfare reform, which has dramatically reduced the number of people receiving public assistance, has altered the debate over the national entry-level minimum wage." (9/20/99)

Adopting reform: the need for change in America’s family court and foster-care system
Source: Pacific Research Institute
Author: Doug Bandow
Country: United States

Bandow examines various efforts to reform family courts and foster care at the state level and makes several specific policy recommendations. (Winter 2001)

Child welfare privatization: reform efforts in the states
Source: Pacific Research Institute
Author: Julia K. Sells
Country: United States

Sells examines various efforts to reform the welfare system at the state level and makes several specific policy recommendations. (Winter 2001)

The next step toward welfare reform
Source: Beacon Hill Institute
Country: United States

This study examines the issue of replacing portions of welfare programs with a system of charitable donations and tax refunds. (3/98)

The rise and fall of fraternal insurance organizations
Source: Humane Studies Review
Author: Leslie Siddeley
Country: United States

Private fraternal organizations were the center of a vast private mutual aid network from 1868 until their displacement by the welfare state. (1992)

The work vs. welfare trade-off
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Michael Tanner, Stephen Moore and David Hartman
Country: United States

Tanner and Moore reveal that welfare benefits are far more generous than previously thought. They conclude that cutting welfare benefits is necessary to discourage welfare dependency. (9/19/95)

Origins of the welfare state in America
Source: The Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: Murray N. Rothbard
Country: United States

Explores how and why private social service efforts were displaced by the welfare state. (Adobe Acrobat plugin required) (Spring 1996)

Four years of welfare reform: a progress report
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Lisa E. Oliphant
Country: United States

Lisa Oliphant looks at the successes and failures of the 4 years of welfare reform. Although the 1996 law has produced moderate success in reducing the "disincentive to leave welfare," it has done little to build self-sufficiency. The report is available in Adobe PDF. (8/22/00)

Catholic Campaign for Human Development: still entranced by leftist activism, despite growing unrest
Source: Capital Research Center
Author: Kathryn Jean Lopez
Country: United States

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development has sought to remake its image with a name change and stricter guidelines for its grants to anti-poverty efforts. But despite its pledge to "help people to help themselves," the Catholic bishops' program still favors groups that advocate government programs or blame free markets for their woes. (10/00)

The Baucus 'WORK' Act of 2002: Repealing welfare reform
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Robert E.Rector
Country: United States

Rector details the danger posed by the Baucus Act to the 1996 welfare reforms. (9/03/02)

Moving social services back to our communities
Source: Pacific Research Institute
Author: Michael Bragin
Country: United States

"America's poor, indigent, and unemployed stand a better chance of finding a path out of poverty and toward greater self-sufficiency if that path is constructed and maintained by them, not by government officials or national charity workers who are outsiders to the nation's impoverished communities." (2001)

Welfare reform: Less than meets the eye
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Michael Tanner
Country: United States

Study examining the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, finding it unsatisfactory in producing welfare reform. (PDF file) (4/1/03)

What the GAO says about the best model for Medicare reform
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Robert E. Moffit
Country: United States

"If the [Federal Employees Health Benefits Program] is indeed the President's model for Medicare reform, it is crucial for ordinary Americans, and senior citizens in particular, to understand how this model functions and why it works the way it does." (2/21/03)

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