June 13, 2002 Enter zip code for local weather education legislative cooperatives membership communications links about emporium search E-mail to receive a credit card application Click for info. on NFU's Dental/ Vision Insurance plan News Releases NFU Says Food Security Depends on Farmers Security ROME (June 13, 2002) Leaders of the National Farmers Union who attended this week s World Food ...

Corporate Welfare Information Center The $150 billion for corporate subsidies and tax benefits eclipses the annual budget deficit of $130 billion. It's more than the $145 billion paid out annually for the core programs of the social welfare state: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), student aid, housing, food and nutrition, and all direct public assistance (excluding Social Security ...

Daily E-mail Alerts About Us Feedback Index Search From the Magazine January 1, 1999 The True Size of Government By Paul C. Light espite declarations to the contrary from elected officials across the political spectrum, the federal government is much bigger, not smaller, than it was 30 years ago. Only by using the narrowest possible definition of the true size of government--headcount in the ...

Cato Policy Analysis No. 274 May 21, 1997 How Rent Control Drives Out Affordable Housing by William Tucker William Tucker is the author of The Excluded Americans: Homelessness and Housing Policies (Regnery) and Zoning, Rent Control, and Affordable Housing (Cato Institute). Executive Summary Rent control has been in force in a number of major American cities for many decades. The best-known ...

Stephen Moore, Director Of Fiscal Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, outlines the effects of various government subsidies like the "Advanced Technology Program".

A scholar from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government contends that subsidized housing programs fail "because they are flawed at the core." Howard Husock charges that "devoting government resources to subsidized housing for the poor is not just unnecessary but also counterproductive.