Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works (23 page)

11
.
   
Ibid.

12
.
   
Peter Morici, “Extended Unemployment Benefits Slow Growth,” United Press International, January 6, 2014,
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/Outside-View/2014/01/06/Extended-unemployment-benefits-slow-growth/UPI-25761389026285/
.

13
.
   
“Unemployment in October 2009,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 10, 2009, accessed January 29, 2014,
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2009/ted_20091110.htm
.

14
.
   
“Average Duration of Unemployment,” Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, accessed January 29, 2014,
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?s[1][id]=UEMPMEAN#
.

15
.
   
Stephen A. Wandner and Thomas Stengle, “Unemployment Insurance: Measuring Who Receives It,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, July 1997, accessed January 29, 2014,
http://stats.bls.gov/mlr/1997/07/art2full.pdf
.

16
.
   
Rob Valletta and Katherine Kuang, “Extended Unemployment and UI Benefits,” Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, April 19, 2010, accessed January 29, 2014,
http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2010/april/extended-unemployment-insurance-benefits/
.

17
.
   
John C. Ogg, “Twelve Things Not to Do If You Win the Lottery,”
USA Today
, August 25, 2013,
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2013/08/25/what-not-to-do-lottery-winners/2696845/
.

18
.
   
Glenn Grotham, “America’s Biggest Problem: The Breakdown of the Family,” accessed January 29, 2014,
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/grothman/Documents/Grothman-families.pdf
.

19
.
   
Nicholas Kristof, “Profiting from a Child’s Illiteracy,”
New York Times
, December 7, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/opinion/sunday/kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html?pagewanted=all
.

20
.
   
Doug McKelway, “Widespread Fraud Reported in Social Security Administration’s Disability Program,” Fox News, October 8, 2013,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/08/widespread-fraud-reported-in-social-security-administration-disability-program/
.

21
.
   
Robert Rector, “Obama’s End Run on Welfare Reform, Part Two: Dismantling Workfare,” Heritage Foundation, September 26, 2012,
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/09/obamas-end-run-on-welfare-reform-part-two-dismantling-workfare
.

22
.
   
Charles Murray, “A New Kind of Segregation,” chapter 3 in
Coming Apart
:
The State of White America
,
1960
–
2010
(New York: Crown Forum, 2012).

23
.
   
Ibid.

24
.
   
Ron Haskins, “Combating Poverty: Understanding New Challenges for Families,” Brookings Institution, June 5, 2012,
http://www.brookings.edu/research/testimony/2012/06/05-poverty-families-haskins
.

25
.
   
Daniel Halper, “Food Stamp Growth 75x Greater Than Job Creation,”
Weekly Standard
, November 2, 2012, accessed January 29, 2014,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/food-stamp-growth-75x-greater-jobcreation_660073.html
.

Chapter 5: Renewing the Pursuit of Happiness

1
.
     
See John G. West, “The Evangelical Voter,”
First Things
, February 2013; and Rich Exner, “Ohio Voter Registration and 2012 Turnout by County,”
Cleveland.com
, November 15, 2012,
http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2012/11/ohio_voting_registration_and_2.html
.

2
.
     
Proverbs 29:18, KJV.

3
.
     
Brittany Wong, “Money and Divorce: What Recent Divorce Research Has to Say about Poverty’s Effect on Marriage,” Huffington Post, August 8, 2012,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/29/poverty-and-divorce_n_1826433.html
.

4
.
     
“Statistics,” Fatherless Generation, accessed January 29, 2014,
http://thefatherlessgeneration.wordpress.com/statistics/
.

5
.
     
Alison Acosta Fraser, “Federal Spending by the Numbers, 2012,” Special Report 121, Heritage Foundation, October 16, 2012,
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/10/federal-spending-by-the-numbers-2012
.

6
.
     
“History,” Center for Social Justice, accessed January 29, 2014,
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/about-us/history
.

7
.
     
Ibid.

8
.
     
Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts
,
Sciences
,
and General Literature
, vol. 9, s.v. “Fletcher, Andrew” (Philadelphia: Maxwell Sommerville: 1894), 264–65.

9
.
     
Webster
’
s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913 + 1828)
, s.v. “Happiness,” available online at the ARTFL Project,
http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?action=search&resource=Webster%27s&word=Happiness&quicksearch=on
.

10
.
   
Webster
’
s 1828 English Dictionary
, s.v. “Good,” available online at
Sorabji.com
,
http://sorabji.com/1828/words/g/good.html
.

Chapter 6: Government Cannot Read You a Bedtime Story

1
.
     
Robert Rector, “Marriage: America’s Greatest Weapon against Child Poverty,” Special Report no. 117, Heritage Foundation, September 5, 2012,
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/09/marriage-americas-greatest-weapon-against-child-poverty
.

2
.
     
Center for Health Statistics, “FastStats: Unmarried Childbearing,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, updated August 5, 2013,
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/unmarry.htm
.

3
.
     
Hope Yen, “4.1 Million Single-Mother Families Are Living in Poverty: Census,” Huffington Post, September 19, 2013,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/single-mother-poverty_n_3953047.html
.

4
.
     
Daniel P. Moynihan,
The Negro Family
:
The Case for National Action
(Washington, D.C.: Office of Policy Planning and Research, U.S. Department of Labor, 1965).

5
.
     
Steven Nelson, “Census Bureau Links Poverty with Out-of-Wedlock Births,”
U
.
S
.
News & World Report
, May 6, 2013,
http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/05/06/census-bureau-links-poverty-with-out-of-wedlock-births
.

6
.
     
Ann Hornaday, “Spike Lee Talks about ‘Red Hook Summer,’”
Washington Post
, August 24, 2012,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/spike-lee-talks-about-red-hook-summer/2012/08/22/ff4d8c24-ec78-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_story.html
.

7
.
     
Zeke J. Miller, “Obama Discusses Race, Fatherhood, Responsibility (Transcript Included),”
Swampland
(blog),
Time
, May 19, 2013,
http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/19/obama-discusses-race-responsibility-at-morehouse-college/#ixzz2loT2WvhU
.

8
.
     
Robert Rector, “Understanding Illegitimacy,” Heritage Foundation, April 12, 2010,
http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2010/04/understanding-illegitimacy
.

9
.
     
Mona Charen, “The Inequality of Marriage-Culture Collapse,”
National Review Online
,
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/370240/inequality-marriage-culture-collapse-mona-charen
.

10
.
   
Katie Reilly, “Sesame Street Reaches Out to 2.7 Million American Children with an Incarcerated Parent,” Pew Research Center, June 21, 2013,
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/06/21/sesame-street-reaches-out-to-2-7-million-american-children-with-an-incarcerated-parent/
; and “You Commit Three Felonies a Day,”
Wall Street Journal
, September 27, 2009,
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704471504574438900830760842
.

11
.
   
National Vital Statistics System, “National Marriage and Divorce Rate Trends,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, February 19, 2013,
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/marriage_divorce_tables.htm
.

12
.
   
“MSNBC Host Melissa Harris-Perry,” YouTube video, recording of “Lean Forward” commercial, uploaded April 4, 2013, by “yazchat,”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3qtpdSQox0
.

13
.
   
As quoted in Isabel Sawhill, “20 Years Later, It Turns Out Dan Quayle Was Right about Murphy Brown and Unmarried Moms,”
Washington Post
, May 25, 2012,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/20-years-later-it-turns-out-dan-quayle-was-right-about-murphy-brown-and-unmarried-moms/2012/05/25/gJQAsNCJqU_story.html
.

14
.
   
Jonah Goldberg, “Goldberg: The Wisdom of Dan Quayle,”
Los Angeles Times
, March 26, 2013,
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-oe-goldberg-murphy-brown-families-20130326,0,771523.column#axzz2kIaHVml6
.

15
.
   
Patrick F. Fagan, “Why Religion Matters Even More: The Impact of Religious Practice on Social Stability,” Backgrounder no. 1992, Heritage Foundation, December 18, 2006,
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2006/12/why-religion-matters-even-more-the-impact-of-religious-practice-on-social-stability
.

Chapter 7: Replace Obamacare Before It’s Too Late

1
.
     
Chris Fleming, “2009 U.S. Health Spending Estimated at 2.5 Trillion,” Health Affairs, February 4, 2010,
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/02/04/2009-u-s-health-spending-estimated-at-2-5-trillion/
.

2
.
     
Paul Krugman, “Clinton, Obama, Insurance,”
New York Times
, February 4, 2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/opinion/04krugman.html?_r=0
.

3
.
     
Sarah Kliff, “Obamacare Leaves Millions Uninsured: Here’s Who They Are,”
Washington Post
, June 7, 2013,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/07/obamacare-leaves-millions-uninsured-heres-who-they-are/
.

4
.
     
Ezra Klein, “Wonkbook: 40 Percent of Obamacare’s IT Isn’t Even Built Yet,”
Washington Post
, November 20, 2013,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/20/wonkbook-40-percent-of-obamacares-it-isnt-even-built-yet/
.

5
.
     
Eric Pianin, “Top Tier Hospitals Excluded from Obamacare,” Yahoo! Finance, December 9, 2013,
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/top-tier-hospitals-excluded-obamacare-191700528.html
.

6
.
     
Angie Drobnic Holan, “Lie of the Year: ‘If You Like Your Health Care Plan, You Can Keep It,’” Politifact, December 12, 2013,
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/dec/12/lie-year-if-you-like-your-health-care-plan-keep-it/
.

7
.
     
Glenn Kessler, “The GOP Claim That More Americans Have Lost Insurance Than Gained It under Obamacare,”
Washington Post
, January 6, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/01/06/the-gop-claim-that-more-americans-have-lost-insurance-than-gained-it-under-obamacare/
.

8
.
     
Jenna Levy, “In US, Uninsured Rate Shows Initial Decline in 2014,” Gallup, January 23, 2014,
http://www.gallup.com/poll/166982/uninsured-rate-shows-initial-decline-2014.aspx
.

9
.
     
Cole Waterman, “Denied Obamacare Coverage, Michigan Family with Disabilities Finds Alternatives Much More Expensive,”
MLive.com
, January 21, 2014,
http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2014/01/bangor_township_family_says_he.html
.

10
.
   
Doug McKelway, “Obamacare Forcing People into Medicaid,” Fox News, January 22, 2014,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/22/obamacare-forcing-people-into-medicaid/
.

11
.
   
Nicole Hopkins, “ObamaCare Forced Mom into Medicaid,”
Wall Street Journal
, November 20, 2013,
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303531204579207724152219590
.

12
.
   
2012 State of Well
-
Being: Community, State and Congressional District Well
-
Being Reports; Iowa
(Gallup and Healthways, 2013),
http://cdn1.hubspot.com/hub/162029/WBI2012/Iowa_2012_State_Report.pdf
.

13
.
   
“South Carolina Birth Outcomes Initiative Celebrates Success,” press release, South Carolina Institute of Medicine & Public Health, January 2014,
http://imph.org/south-carolina-birth-outcomes-initiative-celebrates-success/
.