“We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.” PoorPovertyBuiltRemoveBarriersTraps Book:Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 Source: Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980
“Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.” ImportantProblemSocialPovertyCrimeDrugWelfareOur TimeHomelessnessIlliteracySocial Problems Author:Charles A. Murray
“The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically at odds with the way human beings come to live satisfying lives.” WayHumansReasonHuman BeingsLibertyPovertyToo MuchCostEthicsLibertarianWelfareSatisfyingLibertarianismOddsWork Ethic Author:Charles A. Murray