Daniel Gade
"The Human Cost of Welfare exposes the downside of America’s welfare programs—they keep people underemployed and unemployed, preventing them from leading meaningful lives. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the disability systems for civilians and military veterans. I've studied this issue and lived it myself after losing a leg in Iraq, and I’m glad Phil Harvey and Lisa Conyers are shining a light on this huge hidden problem."
James Bartholomew
"This book is essential reading for anyone who cares about what is really happening in America. Useful, informative and sobering, it describes a dysfunctional welfare system in which one sixth of the population of one of the richest countries in history is living on food stamps. Welfare programs are helping to bring about a slow-motion destruction of the American dream."
" Baltimore "Marie
"It’s about time somebody wrote a book about what it is really like to be on welfare; it’s a joke. So many rules, so hard to get off, you just get stuck, that’s all."
Nadine Strossen
"Phil Harvey and Lisa Conyers illuminate the whole welfare picture with reports from real people about what keeps them poor and dependent. One of the stories that stays with me came from a pregnant teenager. 'In my high school,' she said, 'they even have day care for the kids of the students. The school clinics can’t give out birth control, but they can take care of us and our babies.'"
Peter Goettler
"Highly readable and thoroughly researched, this book reveals the tragic secret of our welfare state: It is hurting the people it is intended to help. The Human Cost of Welfare then provides practical suggestions for righting this wrong."
Gary Johnson
"When you deal regularly with welfare problems, as I did as governor of New Mexico, you see the harm that supposedly helpful government programs can do. Phil Harvey and Lisa Conyer's book paints an alarming picture of our welfare system's unintended consequences and provides valuable suggestions to make the system better."
" Washington DC "Janet
"This book should be read by politicians; they’re the ones who don’t get it. If we can get to work we can start living that American Dream and giving our kids the life they deserve, and that we deserve too."
" Brooklyn "Karen
"I’m glad you wrote this book. I’d rather be going to work today, not dealing with welfare offices, and I’d rather my daughter saw me going to work today too; your book explains why that’s so hard to pull off."