It's Time To Block Grant Welfare To The States

Giving each state control of welfare programs would reduce poverty, and greatly reduce costs. If any liberal reform had been as wildly successful as the 1996 welfare reforms spearheaded by then House Speaker Newt Gingrich, every schoolchild in America would have been forced to memorize the details by now. The reforms of the old New Deal-era Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program involved the ultimate welfare policy dream of President Reagan and his longtime welfare guru Robert Carleson, as explained in Carleson's recent posthumously published book Government Is The Problem: Memoirs of Ronald Reagan's Welfare Reformer. The reform...