Does welfare encourage illegitimacy? The case just closed. The answer is yes.
The writer examines the issue of whether financially rewarding illegitimacy by providing welfare payments to unwed minor mothers increases the frequency of illegitimacy. He discusses the 1995 Republican welfare reform bill, twice vetoed by President Clinton, that would have stopped paying cash to u...
| Published in: | American Enterprise Vol. 7; pp. 48 - 50 |
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American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
July/ August 1996
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