Pandemic unemployment programs are significantly underreported, giving a misimpression about their effectiveness.
Child Tax Credit
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The Poverty Yo-Yo
New Census Bureau statistics show that abandoning the successful anti-poverty interventions of the pandemic has put the nation right back where it started.
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Biden’s Unheralded War on Poverty
By creating a full-employment economy, Biden enabled millions of low-wage workers to raise their pay.
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Moving Past Neoliberalism Is a Policy Project
In order to test whether improving people’s lives can convince them to support Democrats, you have to, well, improve people’s lives.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Last Pandemic Welfare Supports Get Kicked Out
Expirations around Medicaid and food stamps reinforce how Democrats failed to live up to professed ambitions on the welfare state.
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Democrats Frittered Away the Lame-Duck Session
A lackadaisical approach led to failure for numerous bipartisan bills, and kept alive Republican goals to take the debt limit hostage in 2023.
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Is America Ready for a Universal Basic Income?
Initial pilots are very promising, but more work needs to be done.
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The Case of the Missing Child Tax Credit
The expanded policy was effective and popular among those who received it, but Democrats have largely avoided discussing it during the midterm elections.
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Can Democrats Talk About Inflation?
Today on TAP: They’d better learn how. They won’t win the midterms just on reproductive rights.
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Slash Child Abuse With One Simple Trick: Cash
Child protective services is far less effective than the welfare state.