We don't want to create entrenched bureaucracies that are resistant to all change. But one of the reasons that the welfare state emerged was that neither families nor the market could provide the care we need. We should try to improve social welfare programs rather than dumping on them. Poor mothers have been unfairly caricatured as welfare queens. Our current system of public assistance is inadequate, unjust, and unfair.
Poverty is bad for children and other living things.
Most European countries provide much better social support for families and so should we. CorporNation Just like the rest of us, corporations dream of an island paradise where they can get away from it all. Globalization is increasing the intensity of competition among countries, as well as among firms. Both immigration and capital mobility allow employers to free ride on the contributions of parents, friends, and neighbors. If they're not willing to pay, we should kick them off the bus.