This article asks why nations subsidise their low-income housing sectors and offers five reasons: to improve public health; to reduce societal injustice; to preserve the social order; to increase equality of opportunity; and, to accommodate population growth. After discussing those reasons in some...

The principal barrier to economic revival in declining American cities is the huge number of poorly educated children who emerge from the public schools in these cities every year. Through utilization of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, this situation...