Taxpayer cash, zero accountability: Minnesota fraud proves welfare is broken
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Analysis reveals U.S. welfare system's structural flaws promote fraud over outcomes, with Minnesota case showing need for pay-for-results reform approach.
Rachel Sheffield is a Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Health and Welfare Policy.
The structure of the U.S. welfare system creates incentives for states to expand the rolls – and little incentive for them to ensure that money is going to those who truly need it. As welfare rolls expand, programs receive more money. It’s a system based on the Democratic perspective that government should provide more support to more people.
And the U.S. welfare system is massive. It consists of roughly 90 different programs more cost more than $1 trillion annually.
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