Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Welfare reform happened in the context of the austerity oriented budget deals of 1990 and 1993 so there was no political appetite to fix the program by making it more generous. In today's more generous context we can fight poverty without undermining work in the same way. — PolitiTweet.org

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AFDC — old-time "welfare" — had a terrible program design that made it extremely rational for recipients to prefer non-employment to low-wage work. Contemporary proposals from Biden and Romney are nothing like that. https://t.co/BQze7QFo3l https://t.co/dBbmt8ilbc — PolitiTweet.org

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You get a lot of this where people are taking reasonable views (we should have less incarceration and it should be less cruel) then dressing them up with radicalism (abolish prison!) but then immediately retreating from tough cases. — PolitiTweet.org

The cognitive dissonance is the point https://t.co/jpwGN6HIlE

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