{"id":752,"date":"2008-11-13T03:49:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T08:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2008\/11\/13\/unintended-consequences-welfare-mothers-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-11-13T03:49:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T08:49:17","slug":"unintended-consequences-welfare-mothers-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/13\/unintended-consequences-welfare-mothers-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Consequences Welfare Mothers Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ouch<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The number of welfare claims unambiguously decreased, but at what cost? More education increases the value of your human capital which leads to higher wages and more self-sufficiency. The authors wonder if discouraging education might ultimately leave the women more dependent on state benefits than they would if education were encouraged. The trade-off is a classic example of the choice of short-term gain and long-term pain.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/economistsview.typepad.com\/economistsview\/2008\/11\/short-sighted.html\">Economist&#8217;s View: Short-Sighted?<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ouch The number of welfare claims unambiguously decreased, but at what cost? More education increases the value of your human capital which leads to higher wages and more self-sufficiency. The authors wonder if discouraging education might ultimately leave the women more dependent on state benefits than they would if education were encouraged. The trade-off is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/13\/unintended-consequences-welfare-mothers-edition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unintended Consequences Welfare Mothers Edition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}