Matters of Policy & Politics

Matters Of Policy & Politics: Entitled To What?

The ramifications should an additional 21 million Americans – and more than half the nation’s working-age households – become dependent upon the federal government.

Matters of Policy & PoliticsJuly 7, 2021
Matters Of Policy & Politics: Entitled To What?

President Biden’s American Families Plan would take Washington in a new direction: expanding entitlements deep into the nation’s middle class. Daniel Heil, a Hoover Institution policy fellow, explains the ramifications should an additional 21 million Americans – and more than half the nation’s working-age households – become dependent upon the federal government.

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Daniel Heil

Daniel Heil

Bill Whalen

Bill Whalen

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