Welfare Benefits and the ‘Disincentive Desert’

Phil Gramm and John Early’s “Another Wrong Way to Measure Poverty” (op-ed, Dec. 6) is notable for revealing how poverty rates are artificially inflated by the Census Bureau by excluding most social-welfare benefits. When all the benefits are counted, the authors contend, “the percentage of…

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