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Making the invisible visible: cuts to government social programs

Here is a rule of thumb regarding government social programs: You usually learn about them only when their budgets are reduced.  At that point, you hear about draconian cuts to essential services that you didn’t even know existed.  It has … Continue reading

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Religion & the welfare state

The fact that high levels of religion tend to be inversely correlated with per capita government social spending is well known on an international scale. But it doesn’t seem true for American states.

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