by Jane Richey | Jan 14, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The proposed $1.1 trillion spending bill rolled out by House-Senate negotiators on Monday night restores funding to the Head Start program, but is the program actually worth the cost? Proposed in the 1,582 page budget deal is an $8.6 billion investment in Head Start,...
by Jane Richey | Jun 25, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The federal government is not making much headway reducing poverty despite spending hundreds of billions of dollars, according to a study by the libertarian Cato Institute. Despite an unprecedented increase in federal anti-poverty spending, the national poverty rate...