Tag: welfare state

Expand That Welfare State

By Erik Loomis

In General

On February 9, 2021

Any expansion of the welfare state is a major victory for justice. Senior Democrats on Monday will unveil legislation to provide $3,000 per child to tens of millions of American families, aiming to make a major dent in child poverty as part of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic relief package. The 22-page bill to dramatically […]

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The Declining Military-Welfare State

By Erik Loomis

On February 5, 2016

Republicans and neoliberals working in both parties have decimated or wants to decimate much of the American welfare state. But there are exceptions. No one is taking corn subsidies away from Iowa far

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Family Leave

By Erik Loomis

On November 22, 2015

I have stated before that I don’t think a Sanders presidency is all that different than a Clinton presidency, which is why I have written very little about the primary. But that doesn’t me

The Voluntarism Fantasy

By Erik Loomis

In General

On March 18, 2014

“Helping the Poor–Gratuitous Distribution of Coal by the City–Cherry Street,” New York City, 1877 Konczal’s essay on the voluntarism fantasy of conservatives who argue that private charity used to operate as a functional charity distributor before the big bad state destroyed individualism is pretty definitive. Konczal correctly destroys this myth and spits out its remains, […]

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Food Stamp Hypocrisy

By Erik Loomis

On May 25, 2013

A special day for Republican hypocrisy on food stamps. In the Senate, you have our old friend, Louisiana’s David Vitter: Vitter presented the bill as prohibiting “convicted murderers, rapists,

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Welfare reform for white people

By Paul Campos

On June 20, 2012

Yesterday at lunch time an unknown but apparently quite large number of graduates of George Washington’s 2012 class got this email:

Welfare and Guilt

By Erik Loomis

In General

On February 7, 2012

As a labor historian and writer, I think a lot about why Americans lean so much more to the right than most of the rest of the European diaspora. Why did socialism have such an impact throughout Europe, Canada, etc., and has always struggled to gain a foothold in the United States? Why has the […]