The welfare state as currently constituted systematically discriminates against the poorest, sickest, and most vulnerable.
Inefficient. Wasteful. Dehumanizing. Inhumane. Conservatives and libertarians commonly attach all of these epithets to the American welfare system. Any reader of Charles Murray’s voluminous accounts of these programs will know, in exacting statistical detail, just how true these claims are of the welfare and entitlement state. But few have gone through the alphabet soup of programs themselves, and even fewer have written about the “personal” side of the welfare process.
I have applied for these programs. I have consulted lawyers, social workers, and other advocates to […]
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