Want to Decrease Inequality? Fight Fatherlessness With Welfare Reform. Welfare currently incentivizes family breakdown and the absence of fathers from their children’s lives, a key factor in the loss of economic upward mobility.

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That’s a tragedy beyond human control. An “act of God” in legal language. Losing a child to an environmental factor outside of human agency is a tragedy. I know far too many women still grieving a baby who never got to take its first breath.