October 7, 2008
Reducing Illegal Immigration Through Employment Verification, Enforcement, and Protection
By Robert Rector
(Backgrounder #2192)
The E-Verify system accurately authenticates the personal information given by prospective employees. In most cases, verification occurs almost instantly. Congress should reauthorize E-Verify in its ...
October 7, 2008
Executive Summary: Reducing Illegal Immigration Through Employment Verification, Enforcement, and Protection
By Robert Rector
(Executive Summary #2192)
The E-Verify system accurately authenticates the personal information given by prospective employees. In most cases, verification occurs almost instantly. Congress should reauthorize E-Verify in its ...
April 22, 2008
Executive Summary: Abstinence Education: Assessing the Evidence
By Christine C. Kim and Robert Rector
(Executive Summary #2126)
Abstinence education provides life and decision-making skills that lay the foundation for personal responsibility and healthy relationships later in life. Eleven of the 15 authentic ...
April 22, 2008
Abstinence Education: Assessing the Evidence
By Christine C. Kim and Robert Rector
(Backgrounder #2126)
Abstinence education provides life and decision-making skills that lay the foundation for personal responsibility and healthy relationships later in life. Eleven of the 15 authentic ...
December 3, 2007
SCHIP Bill Increases Illegal Immigrants' Access to Medicaid and Undermines Welfare Reform
By Robert E. Rector
(WebMemo #1714)
The SCHIP reauthorization bill increases opportunities for welfare fraud.
November 13, 2007
Hunger Hysteria: Examining Food Security and Obesity in America
By Robert Rector
(WebMemo #1701)
USDA food security data show poverty and hunger in America are linked to widespread obesity; use of food stamps increases obesity among the poor.
August 27, 2007
How Poor Are America's Poor? Examining the "Plague" of Poverty in America
By Robert Rector
(Backgrounder #2064)
For most Americans, the word "poverty" suggests destitution: an inability to provide a family with nutritious food, clothing, and reasonable shelter. But only a small ...
August 27, 2007
Executive Summary: How Poor Are America's Poor? Examining the "Plague" of Poverty in America
By Robert Rector
(Executive Summary #2064)
For most Americans, the word "poverty" suggests destitution: an inability to provide a family with nutritious food, clothing, and reasonable shelter. But only a small ...
June 26, 2007
White House Report Hides the Real Costs of Amnesty and Low Skill Immigration
By Robert Rector
(WebMemo #1523)
The White House's confused responses to Heritage Foundation research on the fiscal impact of low skill immigrants serve only to obscure the major fiscal impact ...
June 18, 2007
Response to False Claims That Illegal Immigrants Will Not Receive Welfare Under Senate Bill
By Robert Rector
(WebMemo #1509)
Over time nearly all amnesty recipients would be offered legal permanent residence and access to more than 60 federal means-tested welfare programs.
June 7, 2007
"Merit-Based" Immigration Under S.1348: Bringing In the High-Tech Waitresses
By Robert Rector
(WebMemo #1492)
Contrary to its proponents' claims, the Senate immigration bill will not replace "family chain migration" with an influx of high-tech workers.
June 6, 2007
Amnesty Will Cost U.S. Taxpayers at Least $2.6 Trillion
By Robert Rector
(WebMemo #1490)
The illegal immigrants granted amnesty under S. 1348 are likely to impose a net cost of at least $2.6 trillion on U.S. taxpayers during their ...
May 22, 2007
The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Immigrants to the U.S. Taxpayer
By Robert Rector and Christine Kim
(Special Report #14)
Current immigration practices, both legal and illegal, operate like a system of trans-national welfare outreach bringing millions of fiscally dependent individuals into the U.S. This ...
May 21, 2007
Executive Summary: The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Immigrants to the U.S. Taxpayer
By Robert Rector and Christine Kim
(Special Report #14)
The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Immigrants to the U.S. Taxpayer
May 21, 2007
The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Immigrants to State and Local Taxpayers
By Robert Rector
(Testimony )
This testimony provides a fiscal analysis of households headed by immigrants without a high school diploma. The testimony refers to these households as "low-skill immigrant ...
April 4, 2007
The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Households to the U.S. Taxpayer
By Robert Rector, Christine Kim, and Shanea Watkins, Ph.D.
(Special Report #12)
Households headed by persons without a high school diploma impose a significant fiscal burden on other taxpayers: The cost of the government benefits they consume ...
April 4, 2007
Executive Summary: The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Households to the U.S. Taxpayer
By Robert Rector, Christine Kim, and Shanea Watkins, Ph.D.
(Executive Summary #12)
Households headed by persons without a high school diploma impose a significant fiscal burden on other taxpayers: The cost of the government benefits they consume ...
October 25, 2006
Importing Poverty: Immigration and Poverty in the United States: A Book of Charts
By Robert Rector
(Special Report #9)
Importing Poverty: Immigration and Poverty in the United States: A Book of Charts
August 15, 2006
The Collapse of Marriage and the Rise of Welfare Dependence
By Jennifer A. Marshall, Robert Lerman, Ph.D., Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Ph.D., Hon. Wade Horn, Ph.D., Robert Rector
(Heritage Lecture #959)
The 1965 Moynihan Report pointed to the disintegration of family as a major cause of welfare dependence. Building on the 1996 welfare reform, programs like ...
August 1, 2006
Welfare Reform Turns Ten: Evidence Shows Reduced Dependence, Poverty
By Christine Kim and Robert Rector
(WebMemo #1183)
By a variety of measures, the 1996 welfare reform succeeded.
July 19, 2006
The Impact of Welfare Reform
By Robert Rector
(Testimony )
Ten years ago, when the welfare reform legislation was signed into law, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D–NY) proclaimed the new law to be "the most ...
June 5, 2006
A Response to Alan Reynolds on Immigration Numbers
By Robert Rector
(WebMemo #1109)
By a ratio of three to one, Americans prefer to decrease rather than increase immigration into the U.S. But the immigration bill passed by the ...
May 26, 2006
Immigration Numbers: Setting the Record Straight
By Robert Rector
(WebMemo #1097)
The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (CIRA, S.2611), which recently passed the Senate, provides amnesty to illegal immigrants and creates a massive "guest worker" for life ...
May 15, 2006
Senate Immigration Bill Would Allow 100 Million New Legal Immigrants over the Next Twenty Years
By Robert Rector
(WebMemo #1076)
If enacted, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act would be the most dramatic change in immigration law in 80 years
May 12, 2006
Amnesty and Continued Low Skill Immigration Will Substantially Raise Welfare Costs and Poverty
By Robert Rector
(Backgrounder #1936)
The fiscal impact of immigrants varies strongly according to immigrants' education level.
February 7, 2006
Congress Re-Starts Welfare Reform
By Robert Rector
(WebMemo #991)
The next step in the revolution in welfare policy that began in 1996.
October 27, 2005
Teenage Sexual Abstinence and Academic Achievement
By Robert Rector and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D.
(Conference Paper )
There is strong and widespread support of teaching sexual abstinence to American teens. Over 90 percent of parents, at a minimum, want teens to be ...
June 14, 2005
Adolescent Virginity Pledges and Risky Sexual Behaviors
By Robert Rector and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D.
(Conference Paper )
Analysis shows that viginity pledgers have lower STD rates than non-pledgers.
June 14, 2005
Virginity Pledgers Have Lower STD Rates and Engage in Fewer Risky Sexual Behaviors
By Robert Rector and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #762)
Counter to some recent research, this analysis shows that viriginity pledges do make a difference.
June 14, 2005
Adolescent Virginity Pledges, Condom Use, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Young Adults
By Robert Rector and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D.
(Conference Paper )
Analysis shows that viginity pledgers have lower STD rates than non-pledgers.
February 10, 2005
Welfare Reform and The Healthy Marriage Initiative
By Robert Rector
(Testimony )
The erosion of marriage during the past four decades has had large-scale negative effects on both children and adults: It lies at the heart of ...
December 16, 2004
Mayors' Claims of Growing Hunger Are Once Again Exaggerated
By Melissa G. Pardue, Robert Rector, and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #1813)
According to the U.S. Conference of Mayors, food-bank use in major cities has increased at an average rate of 16 percent per year for the ...
December 13, 2004
Mayors' Claims of Growing Hunger Appear Once Again Wildly Exaggerated
By Melissa G. Pardue, Robert Rector, and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #620)
Is hunger up 17 percent this year? Don't bet on it.
December 6, 2004
Roles of Couples' Relationship Skills and Fathers' Employment in Encouraging Marriage
By Robert Rector and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D.
(Center for Data Analysis Report #04-14)
An increased recognition of the importance of marriage should lead to policies to help couples that are interested enter into and sustain healthy marriages. Success ...
September 21, 2004
Summary: Teens Who Make Virginity Pledges Have Substantially Improved Life Outcomes
By Robert Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D., and Jennifer A. Marshall
(WebMemo #570)
Adolescents who take a virginity pledge have lower levels of sexual activity and better life outcomes.
September 21, 2004
Teens Who Make Virginity Pledges Have Substantially Improved Life Outcomes
By Robert E. Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D., and Jennifer A. Marshall
(Center for Data Analysis Report #04-07)
Recently released Add Health survey data indicate that adolescents who make a virginity pledge will have fewer sexual partners and are less likely to experience ...
September 15, 2004
Understanding Poverty and Economic Inequality in the United States
By Robert Rector
(Backgrounder #1796)
The recent Census Bureau report substantially exaggerates the extent of poverty and economic inequality in the United States. Policies that require welfare recipients to work ...
August 24, 2004
Two Americas: One Rich, One Poor? Understanding Income Inequality in the United States
By Robert Rector and Rea Hederman, Jr.
(Backgrounder #1791)
The top fifth of U.S. households perform a third of all labor, contain the best educated and most productive workers, provide a disproportionate share of ...
August 24, 2004
Executive Summary: Two Americas: One Rich, One Poor? Understanding Income Inequality in the United States
By Robert Rector and Rea Hederman, Jr.
(Executive Summary #1791)
The top fifth of U.S. households perform a third of all labor, contain the best educated and most productive workers, provide a disproportionate share of ...
August 10, 2004
Comprehensive Sex Education vs. Authentic Abstinence: A Study of Competing Curricula
By Shannan Martin, Robert Rector, and Melissa G. Pardue
(Special Report )
As this Heritage Foundation Report proves, "abstinence-plus" is simply not abstinence education.
March 30, 2004
Reducing Domestic Violence: How the Healthy Marriage Initiative Can Help
By Melissa G. Pardue and Robert Rector
(Backgrounder #1744)
The President's Healthy Marriage Initiative seeks to prevent the isolation and poverty of welfare mothers by intervening before a pattern of broken relationships and welfare ...
March 30, 2004
Executive Summary: Reducing Domestic Violence: How the Healthy Marriage Initiative Can Help
By Melissa G. Pardue and Robert Rector
(Executive Summary #1744)
The President's Healthy Marriage Initiative seeks to prevent the isolation and poverty of welfare mothers by intervening before a pattern of broken relationships and welfare ...
March 30, 2004
Facts about Abstinence Education
By Robert E. Rector
(WebMemo #461)
Efforts to redirect funds to programs deceptively labeled as support for "abstinence plus" or "comprehensive sex ed" would take funding away from abstinence education and ...
March 26, 2004
Understanding the President's Healthy Marriage Initiative
By Robert E. Rector and Melissa G. Pardue
(Backgrounder #1741)
The current welfare system financially penalizes unmarried parents who wish to wed, despite the fact that an increased marriage rate among welfare recipients is both ...
March 26, 2004
Executive Summary: Understanding the President's Healthy Marriage Initiative
By Robert E. Rector and Melissa G. Pardue
(Executive Summary #1741)
The current welfare system financially penalizes unmarried parents who wish to wed, despite the fact that an increased marriage rate among welfare recipients is both ...
March 9, 2004
Marriage: Still the Safest Place For Women and Children
By Robert E. Rector, Patrick F. Fagan, and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #1732)
Social science data clearly show that mothers and children are safest and thrive best in a married family. For example, the incidence of spousal, boyfriend, ...
February 10, 2004
Welfare Reform: Progress, Pitfalls, and Potential
By Robert E. Rector
(WebMemo #421)
To ensure that reform is sustained and strengthened, action must be taken to promote three elements that have provided a gateway from poverty and dependency: ...
January 28, 2004
Executive Summary: What Do Parents Want Taught in Sex Education Programs?
By Robert E. Rector, Melissa G. Pardue, and Shannan Martin
(Executive Summary #1722)
A nationally representative Zogby International poll shows that American parents overwhelmingly, and in some cases almost unanimously, support the themes and messages of abstinence education ...
January 28, 2004
What Do Parents Want Taught in Sex Education Programs?
By Robert E. Rector, Melissa G. Pardue, and Shannan Martin
(Backgrounder #1722)
A nationally representative Zogby International poll shows that American parents overwhelmingly, and in some cases almost unanimously, support the themes and messages of abstinence education ...
January 14, 2004
Executive Summary: Government Spends $12 on Safe Sex and Contraceptives for Every $1 Spent on Abstinence
By Melissa Pardue, Robert E. Rector, and Shannan Martin
(Executive Summary #1718)
Given the alarming content of most comprehensive sex-ed programs, and given the current funding imbalance between contraceptive promotion and abstinence programs, any new monies devoted ...
January 14, 2004
Government Spends $12 on Safe Sex and Contraceptives for Every $1 Spent on Abstinence
By Melissa G. Pardue, Robert E. Rector, and Shannan Martin
(Backgrounder #1718)
Given the alarming content of most comprehensive sex-ed programs, and given the current funding imbalance between contraceptive promotion and abstinence programs, any new monies devoted ...
January 5, 2004
Understanding Poverty in America
By Robert E. Rector and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #1713)
If poverty means lacking nutritious food, adequate warm housing, and clothing for a family, relatively few of the 35 million people identified as being "in ...
January 5, 2004
Executive Summary: Understanding Poverty in America
By Robert E. Rector and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D.
(Executive Summary #1713)
If poverty means lacking nutritious food, adequate warm housing, and clothing for a family, relatively few of the 35 million people identified as being "in ...
December 15, 2003
Mayors' Claims of Growing Hunger Appear Wildly Exaggerated
By Melissa G. Pardue, Robert E. Rector, and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #1711)
Policymakers should be wary of the claims of "increasing hunger" that are likely to be made in the 2003 U.S. Conference of Mayors report. Year ...
August 22, 2003
"Marriage Plus": Sabotaging the President's Efforts to Promote Healthy Marriage
By Robert E. Rector, Melissa G. Pardue, Lauren R. Noyes
(Backgrounder #1677)
Opponents of President Bush's pilot initiative to fund innovative marriage-promotion programs have proposed an alternative strategy termed "marriage plus."
July 21, 2003
Under Senate Bill, Welfare Recipients Who Refuse to Work Would Still Get Cash Benefits
By Jason Turner and Robert E. Rector
(Backgrounder #1669)
Legislation passed by the House of Representatives would require all states to impose meaningful sanctions on Temporary Assistance to Needy Families recipients who fail to ...
June 26, 2003
The Harmful Effects of Early Sexual Activity and Multiple Sexual Partners Among Women: A Book of Charts
By Robert E. Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D., Lauren R. Noyes, Shannan Martin
(Executive Summary )
This report examines the linkages between early initiation of sexual activity, number of nonmarital sex partners, and human well-being.
June 16, 2003
Why Congress Should Ignore Radical Feminist Opposition to Marriage
By Patrick F. Fagan, Robert E. Rector, and Lauren R. Noyes
(Executive Summary #1662)
Why Congress Should Ignore Radical Feminist Opposition to Marriage
June 16, 2003
Why Congress Should Ignore Radical Feminist Opposition to Marriage
By Patrick F. Fagan, Robert E. Rector, and Lauren R. Noyes
(Backgrounder #1662)
Despite demonstrated evidence in every major social policy area of the need to rebuild a strong and healthy culture of marriage, President Bush's new marriage ...
June 16, 2003
Why Congress Should Ignore Radical Feminist Opposition to Marriage
By Patrick F. Fagan, Robert E. Rector, and Lauren R. Noyes
(Executive Summary #1662)
Despite demonstrated evidence in every major social policy area of the need to rebuild a strong and healthy culture of marriage, President Bush's new marriage ...
June 3, 2003
Sexually Active Teenagers Are More Likely to Be Depressed and to Attempt Suicide
By Robert E. Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D., and Lauren R. Noyes
(Center for Data Analysis Report #03-04)
Sexually Active Teenagers Are More Likely to Be Depressed
May 20, 2003
Increasing Marriage Would Dramatically Reduce Child Poverty
By Robert E. Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D., Patrick F. Fagan, and Lauren R. Noyes
(Center for Data Analysis Report #03-06)
In 2001, 1.35 million children were born outside marriage. This represents 33.5 percent of all children born in the United States in that year. Children ...
February 6, 2003
Executive Summary: The Continuing Good News About Welfare Reform
By Robert Rector and Patrick F. Fagan
(Executive Summary #1620)
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February 6, 2003
The Continuing Good News About Welfare Reform
By Robert Rector and Patrick F. Fagan
(Backgrounder #1620)
When Congress reauthorizes Temporary Assistance to Needy Families this year, it should ensure that all able-bodied welfare recipients are required to work or undertake other ...
January 29, 2003
The Role of Parental Work in Child Poverty
By Robert E. Rector and Rea S. Hederman, Jr.
(Center for Data Analysis Report #03-01)
The analysis presented in this paper indicates that child poverty is more often the result of low levels of parental work than of parents' low ...
October 25, 2002
Marriage and Welfare Reform: The Overwhelming Evidence that Marriage Education Works
By Patrick F. Fagan, Robert W. Patterson, and Robert E. Rector
(Backgrounder #1606)
Marriage is good for everyone in society. Children born and reared in married families are much less likely to be impoverished or to live on ...
October 25, 2002
Marriage and Welfare Reform: The Overwhelming Evidence that Marriage Education Works
By Patrick F. Fagan, Robert W. Patterson, and Robert E. Rector
(Executive Summary #1606)
bg1606es: Marriage and Welfare Reform: The Overwhelming Evidence that Marriage Education Works
September 27, 2002
Despite Recession, Black Child Poverty Plunges to All-Time Historic Low
By Robert E. Rector
(Backgrounder #1595)
The record of the past six years indicates that welfare reform should be strengthened and expanded. The evidence demonstrates that, with welfare reform, our nation ...
September 3, 2002
The Baucus "WORK" Act of 2002: Repealing Welfare Reform
By Robert E. Rector
(Executive Summary #1580es)
BG1580es:The Baucus "WORK" Act of 2002: Repealing Welfare Reform
August 2, 2002
The Effects of Marriage and Maternal Education in Reducing Child Poverty
By Robert Rector and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D.
(Center for Data Analysis Report #02-05)
Both marriage and maternal education can play a significant role in reducing child poverty. The most effective public policy to reduce child poverty would encourage ...
July 12, 2002
Myths and Facts: Why Successful Welfare Reform Must Strengthen Work Requirements
By Brian M. Riedl and Robert E. Rector
(Backgrounder #1568)
Work is the only way to escape the cycle of poverty, and work requirements must be enforced if they are to play a meaningful role ...
June 26, 2002
The Baucus "WORK" Act of 2002: Declaring War on Welfare Reform
By Robert Rector
(WebMemo #120)
Although it does not restore entitlement status to TANF funding, the Baucus "WORK" bill overturns nearly every other element of the 1996 welfare reform. It ...
May 31, 2002
Dissenting Statement to the Report of the Millennial Housing Commission
By Robert Rector
(WebMemo #102)
To improve affordability, we must increase family incomes and reduce governmental policies that restrain housing supply and raise costs. The Millennial Housing Commission report proposes ...
May 1, 2002
Housing Policy and Welfare Reform
By Robert Rector
(Testimony )
Government housing programs should be restructured according to the current principles of welfare reform. First, able-bodied recipients should be required to be fully employed or ...
April 15, 2002
The Effect of Marriage on Child Poverty
By Robert Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D., and Patrick F. Fagan
(Center for Data Analysis Report #02-04)
The lack of progress in reducing child poverty since 1965 can be explained in part by the erosion of marriage and the growth of poverty-prone ...
April 11, 2002
Next Steps in Welfare Reform
By Robert E. Rector
(Testimony )
Test041102: Next Steps in Welfare Reform
April 8, 2002
The Effectiveness of Abstinence Education Programs in Reducing Sexual Activity Among Youth
By Robert E. Rector
(Backgrounder #1533)
Real abstinence education is essential to reducing out-of-wedlock childbearing, preventing sexually transmitted diseases, and improving emotional and physical well-being among the nation's youth.
September 20, 2001
The Good News About Welfare Reform
By Robert E. Rector
(Testimony )
The current indifference and hostility to marriage in the welfare system is a national disgrace. In reauthorizing TANF, Congress must make the rebuilding of marriage ...
September 5, 2001
The Good News About Welfare Reform
By Robert E. Rector and Patrick F. Fagan
(Backgrounder #1468)
The 1996 welfare reform began necessary changes to the disastrous old welfare system. The rewards to non-work in the TANF program have been substantially reduced. ...
September 5, 2001
The Good News About Welfare Reform
By Robert Rector and Patrick F. Fagan
(Executive Summary #1468es)
BG1468es: The Good News About Welfare Reform
August 1, 2001
The Size and Scope Of Means-Tested Welfare Spending
By Robert E. Rector
(Testimony )
Rather than increasing conventional welfare spending year after year, we should change the foundations of the welfare system.
June 27, 2001
Reforming Food Stamps to Promote Work and Reduce Poverty and Dependence
By Robert E. Rector
(Testimony )
The replacement of AFDC with the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program (TANF) has led to record declines in dependence and poverty.
May 23, 2001
Understanding Differences in Black and White Child Poverty Rates
By Robert Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, and Patrick F. Fagan
(Center for Data Analysis Report #01-04)
Child poverty is a continuing American problem. This report examines the causes of child poverty and the factors that contribute to racial differences in child ...
March 15, 2001
The Effects of Welfare Reform
By Robert E. Rector
(Testimony )
The intention of welfare programs is to benefit low income Americans, especially children. Yet the evidence indicates that children and parents are actively harmed rather ...
June 5, 2000
The Effects of Divorce on America
By Patrick F. Fagan and Robert E. Rector
(Backgrounder #1373)
The foundation of society (marriage and the family) is growing weaker, with fewer adults entering into marriage, more adults leaving it in divorce, and more ...
October 5, 1999
The Fathers Count Act of 1999
By Robert E. Rector
(Testimony )
Marriage in our society is dying. Today, a third of all births occur outside of wedlock.
September 29, 1999
Income Inequality: How Census Data Misrepresent Income Distribution
By Robert E. Rector and Rea S. Hederman, Jr.
(Center for Data Analysis Report #99-07)
Political debate on income in the United States often has been characterized as competition between two schools of economic thought.
September 9, 1999
Welfare Reform and the Decline of Dependence
By Robert E. Rector
(Testimony )
During the past three years, national caseloads in the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program have fallen greatly.
September 1, 1999
The Extent of Material Hardship and Poverty in the United States
By Robert E. Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, and Sarah E. Youssef
(WebMemo #187)
This paper will take an alternative approach to assessing poverty: examining the material living conditions of low-income Americans.
May 11, 1999
The Determinants of Welfare Caseload Decline
By Robert E. Rector and Sarah E. Youssef
(Center for Data Analysis Report #99-04)
During the past three years, national caseloads in the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program have fallen by 37 percent.
September 18, 1998
The Myth of Widespread American Poverty
By Robert E. Rector
(Executive Summary #1221)
BG1221es: The Myth of Widespread American Poverty
September 18, 1998
The Myth of Widespread American Poverty
By Robert E. Rector
(Backgrounder #1221)
Exposing the truth about America's "poor" and poverty.
January 14, 1998
The Clinton Day Care Proposal: An Attack on Parents and Children
By Robert E. Rector and Patrick F. Fagan
(Executive Memorandum #506)
The Clinton Day Care Proposal: An Attack on Parents and Children
March 4, 1997
Wisconsin's Welfare Miracle
By Robert E. Rector
(Backgrounder )
Wisconsin has shown the way to welfare reform; it is now up to rest of the nation to apply the lessons learned.
June 5, 1996
How Welfare Harms Kids
By Robert E. Rector and Patrick F. Fagan
(Backgrounder #1084)
Welfare hurts children too.
March 18, 1996
Yet Another Sham Welfare Reform: Examining the NGA Plan
By Robert E. Rector
(Backgrounder #1075)
The welfare "reform" proposed by the National Governors' Association is, in reality, an anti-reform.
December 4, 1995
Why Congress Must Reform Welfare
By Robert E. Rector
(Backgrounder #1063)
Higher welfare payments do not assist children; they increase dependence and illegitimacy, which have a devastatingly negative effect on children's development.
September 21, 1990
How "Poor" are America's Poor?
By Robert Rector
(Backgrounder #791)
Next week the United States Census Bureau will release its annual report on "poverty" stating, as it has for many years, that there are some ...
September 21, 1990
How "Poor" are America's Poor?
By Robert E. Rector
(Backgrounder #791)
Defining America's "Poor."
