Welfare-to-Poverty
The Bitter Fruit of Welfare Reform contains a review of the studies an data on caseload decline and post-aid employment. Much of the 2/3′s caseload reduction is from declines in participation by eligible families, often due to procedural barriers (or…
… and you thought your bar application was voluminous
The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary has posted a 173-page version of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomajor’s responses to the Committee’s questionnaire. And that’s not counting the appendix, supplement, supporting public record related to her responses, as well…
The consequences of impoverishing the already impoverished
A few weeks ago the Washington Post gave us all a course in Poverty Economics 101, explaining why “you have to be rich to be poor.” The bad news in California is that it looks like the poor will need…
Library of Congress: Sonia Sotomayor
For those interested in more about Sonia Sotomayor than the prevailing high-carb media burn-off for those with short attention spans, you may be interested to know the Library of Congress has long had a Supreme Court Nominations page, which has…
