Cato Institute
Michael D. Tanner, Senior Fellow
The Cato Institute, founded in 1977, is a nonprofit public policy research foundation headquartered in Washington, D.C. Its mission is to increase the understanding of public policies based on the principles of limited government, free markets, individual liberty, and peace. Michael Tanner directs health and welfare studies and is the author of The Poverty of Welfare: Helping Others in Civil Society. The following is from a September 21, 2006, article titled "More Welfare, More Poverty." See http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6698. News that the poverty rate remained at 12.6 percent last year, statistically unchanged from the year before, has set off a predictable round…
