about welfare vs. work
The CBPP does an admirable job of debunking Cato here
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=4004
"Cato’s various errors create a misleading portrayal of the trade-off between work and welfare receipt. Cato wrongly assumes that a non-working family can count on TANF and housing assistance. Cato also wrongly assumes that a family that leaves welfare for work does not receive Medicaid and SNAP and would lose housing assistance if the family had received it previously.
To be sure, many working families struggle because their earnings are low and the assistance they receive often isn’t enough to make ends meet, particularly if they have significant child care or transportation costs. But Cato doesn’t propose policy steps that would help these families work and care for their children — instead prescribing policies that would deepen poverty for many already poor children."
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