> Calling public schools a welfare program disproportionately allocated to the poor seems like a stretch too. It's not he's saying. He's saying that public sch

> Calling public schools a welfare program disproportionately allocated to the poor seems like a stretch too. It's not he's saying. He's saying that public schools should be considered part of the "welfare program". Which they probably should since public schools, like social security, are program that benefit society as a whole, which you can (or cannot) use depending on your personal situation. Someone else notes that those program tend, on average, to mostly benefit poor people - which they probably should. But it's not systematic. So I don't really see any taxonomy issues here.