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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (230478)	8/31/2013 11:40:21 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 544578

I'll get back to you after I reread the study. Having said that I think their proposal of not letting a woman on welfare automatically lose her welfare benefit's after she marries has merit don't you? Definitely. But it's wrapped in classic Heritage ideological arguments--the reasons the poor are poor lies within their own behaviors. The abstract sketches a study designed to buttress that position. I could spend a bit of time taking it apart but it's a waste. We already know that they've done the classic thing--stipulated an outcome and structured the research to produce results that support it. But don't overgeneralize this. As I recall Heritage is one of the right wing think tanks that had a record for doing decent research on occasion. That's certainly not the case in recent years. I don't keep up with the several ones of these but I do recall that some of their work was read by serious policy makers and researchers. This one would not be.