How Welfare Harms Kids

Publication Date: September 2002

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

Author(s): Robert E. Rector; Patrick F. Fagan

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Welfare

Type: Report

Abstract:

The Stand for Children rally, held in Washington on June 1, called attention to the plight of the nation’s children. However, the unstated, underlying goal was to defend the continuing growth of the welfare system and implicitly to criticize those in Congress who have sought to reform it. Thus, while the Stand for Children event properly called attention to the disastrous condition of America’s children, it is important to recognize that children are suffering precisely because of the governmental policies supported over the last 25 years by the leading organizations promoting the rally.