Welfare's worst failure.

• Position: The Human Cost of Welfare: How the System Hurts the People It's Supposed to Help - Book review

A new investigation of means-tested federal welfare programs shows that they don't encourage people to support themselves. Instead, they keep people from working, with crippling consequences for those people, their families, and our economy. And current welfare programs do that while costing us nearly $700 billion a year--substantially more than the entire defense budget.

The Human Cost of Welfare: How the System Hurts the People It 's Supposed to Help, draws on findings by analysts and scholars and on more than 100 interviews across the United States to tell the real stories of men and women who feel trapped by our current welfare system.

And then the authors--Phil Harvey and Lisa Conyers of the DKT Liberty Project--offer a wide variety of suggestions that will pave the way to positive change.

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The Human Cost of Welfare: How the System Hurts the People It's Supposed to Help, by Phil Harvey and Lisa Conyers. Praeger, 2016; 181 pages (Current Events and Issues/ Society, Economics/ Policy); Hardcover ISBN 978-1-4408-4534-5, $48; al so available as an e-book (ISBN 978-1-4408-4535-2).

READERS' REPORTS:

"Highly readable and thoroughly researched, The Human Cost of Welfare reveals the tragic secret of our welfare state. It is hurting the people it is intended to help. Then the book provides practical suggestions for righting this wrong."

--Peter Goettler, President, Cato Institute

"The Human Cost of Welfare is essential reading for anyone who cares about what is really happening in America. Welfare programs are helping to bring about a...