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Title: Building a Wall around the Welfare State, Instead of the Country

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Critics of immigration reform worry about immigrants disproportionately consuming public benefits. Instead, they should support legal changes to immigrant welfare eligibility. Eliminating immigrant welfare eligibility for Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP or food stamps), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Medicaid, and other programs would, in the words of the Cato Institutes late Chairman Emeritus William Niskanen, build a wall around the welfare state, not around the country. Doing so would reduce immigrant welfare dependency and could increase the pace of intergenerational mobility among immigrants. Such measures would also be constitutional. This policy analysis shows how to implement those reforms.

Url: http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/building-wall-around-welfare-state-instead-country

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Authors: Cole, Sophie; Nowrasteh, Alex

Publisher: CATO Institute

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Topics: Migration and Immigration, Poverty and Welfare

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