No other major Western democracy has such a weak family support program.

Neighborhoods in which people are poor and working are entirely different from neighborhoods in which people are poor and jobless. Jobless neighborhoods are tr…

One of the reasons I came to Harvard, after being in Chicago for so many years, is the critical mass of public intellectuals at Harvard.

Many of the government's actions aggravate rather than alleviate the stresses on ordinary families.

'The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.'

But this is quite different from Sweden, where the female-headed family rate is about equal to that of the United States, but poverty is not associated with fa…

The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.