Francine J. Lipman (UNLV): Access to Tax InJustice. Anne Alstott (Yale): Updating the Welfare State: Marriage, the Income Tax, and Social Security in the Age of the New Individualism. Kimberly J. Morgan (GWU): America's Misguided Approach to Social Welfare: How the Country Could Get More for Less. Michael Tanner (Cato): The American Welfare State: How We Spend Nearly $1 Trillion a Year Fighting Poverty — and Fail. Stay afraid: Jacob G. Hornberger on how fear sustains the welfare state. Ed Morrissey on why Republicans should defend the welfare state. From National Affairs, Robert Rector and Jennifer A. Marshall on the unfinished work of welfare reform. From New Politics, whatever happened to welfare? Betty Reid Mandell wonders. When public is better: Robert Kuttner on how the problem is not too much government, but too passive a government.
