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...Cook further stated that there is no indication that welfare causes poverty. Instead, Cook said that welfare benefits to the poor do, in fact, inhibit poverty...
...Cook also said that despite popular perceptions, single parent families and illegitimate children have had no affect on the country's welfare ills...
...particular, Cook said that teen births affect only about five percent of the country's youth and that increased welfare benefits are not an incentive to have more children...
...There is no significant relationship between the hope of an additional $60 to $70 per month and the decision to have another child," Cook said...
...Empirical evidence contradicts the connections between welfare and poverty," Cook said. "Evidence argues that by cutting off the small benefits received by the impoverished you will expose them to greater health risks and will cause higher costs in terms of health care, crime and the building of prisons for people who have no other way to provide for their families," he added...