The federal government’s move to provide TANF funds as a block grant to states has allowed Texas to spread its TANF funds in a fiscally responsible way across a number of programs and state agencies.
Economy
Too Big to Succeed: Righting the Wrongs in the Fight against Poverty
When did it all start to go wrong? In the early 20th Century, Americans fighting poverty not only lost sight of the goal—lifting families up—but even of the problem itself, and instead sought to remake society through government intervention, often at the expense of the very people they were meant to help. In 1920, Owen...
May 31, 2022