Cato Studies: Welfare

The American Welfare State: How We Spend Nearly $1 Trillion a Year Fighting Poverty—And Fail

By Michael D. Tanner. Policy Analysis No. 694. April 11, 2012.

What Can the United States Learn from the Nordic Model?

By Daniel J. Mitchell. Policy Analysis No. 603. November 5, 2007.

KidSave: Real Problem, Wrong Solution

By Michael D. Tanner and Jagadeesh Gokhale. Policy Analysis No. 562. January 24, 2006.

Medicaid’s Unseen Costs

By Michael F. Cannon. Policy Analysis No. 548. August 18, 2005.

Implementing Welfare Reform: A State Report Card

By Jenifer Zeigler. Policy Analysis No. 529. October 19, 2004.

How to Reduce the Cost of Federal Pension Insurance

By Richard Ippolito. Policy Analysis No. 523. August 24, 2004.

Welfare Reform: Less Than Meets the Eye

By Michael D. Tanner. Policy Analysis No. 473. April 1, 2003.

Welfare Reform That Works: Explaining the Welfare Caseload Decline, 1996-2000

By Michael J. New. Policy Analysis No. 435. May 7, 2002.

Four Years of Welfare Reform: A Progress Report

By Lisa E. Oliphant. Policy Analysis No. 378. August 22, 2000.

In Praise and Criticism of Mexico’s Pension Reform

By L. Jacobo Rodríguez. Policy Analysis No. 340. April 14, 1999.

The Value of Welfare: Cato vs. CBPP

By Michael D. Tanner and Naomi Lopez. Briefing Paper No. 27. June 12, 1996.

The Work Versus Welfare Trade-Off: An Analysis of the Total Level of Welfare Benefits by State

By Michael D. Tanner, Stephen Moore and David Hartman. Policy Analysis No. 240. September 19, 1995.

SSI: The Black Hole of the Welfare State

By Christopher Wright. Policy Analysis No. 224. April 27, 1995.

Ending Welfare as We Know It

By Michael D. Tanner. Policy Analysis No. 212. July 7, 1994.

The Failure of Federal Job Training

By James Bovard. Policy Analysis No. 77. August 28, 1986.

The Tightening Grip of the Poverty Trap

By Arthur Laffer. Policy Analysis No. 41. August 30, 1984.