Fall 2024

Next year, welfare as we now know it is slated to come before Congress for reauthorization. By “welfare” I mean federally financed cash assistance to low-income mothers (and occasionally fathers) with children. Welfare as we used to know it was …

Robert Kennedy was fond of this quote from Camus: “Perhaps we cannot make this a world in which children are no longer tortured. But at least we can reduce the number of children who are tortured.” In both the United …