Here’s How Bad Economics Created America’s Teen Takeover Crisis

come from, the collapse of the two-parent household, the rise in youth delinquency, or the disengagement from school that so often follows? The roots trace back to Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society, passed between 1964 and 1966 as Johnson sought to build on Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.

The incentive structure baked into the new welfare programs was continue reading …