Heritage Explains 035: True Welfare Reform

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Debates about welfare in the U.S. often turn into a fiscal tug of war where the left simply seeks to expand conventional welfare spending and the right seeks to shrink it. It is true that the welfare system is far larger and costlier than imaginable but the most important problem is its harmful effects on the poor themselves. The current welfare system undermines self-sufficiency. It undermines work and attacks marriage, and by so doing, it strikes at the roots of human happiness and well-being. The principal goal of welfare reform should not be merely to cut spending but to be transformed so that it truly benefits the poor,

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