21 August 2008

Welfare Mothers Really Do Make Better Lovers

Over at Carpe Diem, Neil Young was justified on page 7:

The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) gave states greater flexibility to formulate and implement initiatives to reduce welfare dependency and encourage employment for members of low-income families with children. For the nation, in 2006, 10 years after passage of the Act, the birth rate for women 15 to 50 years old receiving public assistance income in the last 12 months was 155 births per 1,000 women, about three times the rate for women not receiving public assistance (53 births per 1,000 women).

Econ 101: The more you subsidize something, the more of it you get.

No comments: