The author chronicles the rise of what he calls the New New Left, beginning with President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty in the 1960s, and lays the blame for the economic meltdown of the early twenty-first century to the bigger government and more public spending agenda of the political powerhouse

This paper examines the effects of recent welfare reforms in the US and UK on the well-being of children in low-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper finds some commonalities but also some notable...

Real local government spending in the United States has increased by 240% between 1972 and 2012, faster than can be explained by population growth (a 48% increase), growth in median household income (a 32% increase), or changes in other economic, demographic, and institutional variables...