On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Max B. Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote: > Regarding TANF ('welfare'), the "cash caseload" was slashed but other > benefits to the poor have increased (EITC especially). I am not saying > the system was improved, only that the natural dynamic of $$ expansion was not > thwarted by reform. We forget spending on Medicaid has grown substantially > too, supplemented by SCHIP. What has also expanded among entitlements has > been social insurance, not least because of G. Bush.
Paul Krugman agrees: "What this suggests is that the really important thing, for reformers, is to get the principle of universality established. Once that happens, there’s no going back." http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/the-irreversibility-of-reform/ -raghu. -- milli-helen : The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
