How to Strengthen America's Crumbling Families

Publication Date: April 1992

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Robert Rector

Research Area: Economics; Social conditions

Keywords: Society

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

What families need from government is not new spending and new social programs. Those have done little or nothing to help families, and paying for them has added to the tax burden on us all. What families really need is threefold. First, for government to allow them to keep a greater share of their own hard-earned money. Second, for government to cut taxes on investment and savings in order to stimulate productivity growth and to raise real wages hughout the economy. Third, a reform of the welfare system to promote rather than penalize the formation of self-sufficient, two-parent families. These policies are needed urgently if America is to restore its bedrock social institution.