Robert Rector

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Robert Rector, a leading authority on poverty, welfare programs and immigration in America for three decades, is The Heritage Foundation’s senior research fellow in domestic policy.

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  • America’s Families Would Be Slammed by House Panel’s Expansion of Welfare

    Robert Rector
    A major feature of the House Ways and Means Committee’s “tax bill” is an expansion of the child tax credit. This expansion was necessary to secure Democrats’ support for the corporate tax provisions in the bill, but the trade isn’t worth the cost. The welfare-related child tax credit provisions aren’t a minor extension of the…
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  • Work Requirements in Welfare Programs Take a Hit in Debt Ceiling Deal
    Robert Rector

  • Revival of Biden’s Child Tax Credit Would Hurt Economy and People It’s Supposed to Help
    Robert Rector

  • Government Supports Would Grow to $76,400 per Poor Family
    Robert Rector

  • Biggest Means-Tested Welfare Increase in US History Would Hurt, Not Help, Poor
    Robert Rector

  • 5 Things You Need to Know About Biden’s $1.8 Trillion American Families Plan
    Marie Fishpaw

  • How Poor, Really, Are America’s Poor?
    Robert Rector

  • The Truth About the New Food Stamp Work Requirements’ Effects
    Robert Rector

  • Don’t Believe the UN’s Propaganda About ‘Extreme Poverty’ in the US
    Robert Rector

  • Trump Issued a Call for Welfare Reform. Here Are 4 Actions Policymakers Can Take.
    Mimi Teixeira

  • Obama Gutted Work Requirements for Welfare. Why Trump Is Right to Restore Them.
    Robert Rector

  • Trump-Endorsed Immigration Bill Would Save Taxpayers Trillions
    Robert Rector

  • Trump’s Food Stamp Reform Would Close the Trap of Dependency
    Robert Rector

  • Work Requirements in Medicaid Won’t Work. Here’s a Serious Alternative.
    Robert Rector

  • Does Current Immigration Economically Benefit Ordinary US Citizens?
    Robert Rector

  • Amnesty Would Cost Taxpayers Trillions, National Academy of Sciences Report Indicates
    Robert Rector
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