Congress is moving to avoid another lapse in funding, but a freeze in welfare support to blue states shows what’s missing in the debate.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Can Digital Credentials Boost Enrollment in Social Welfare Programs?
A new study says yes, but barriers will persist.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Auto-CR Dilemma
Today’s X-Date: If the debt ceiling deal passes, the military budget goes up and IRS funding gets slashed. But if Congress doesn’t pass the subsequent spending bills, that reverses.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Democratic Child Care Bill Keeps Work Requirements
At a time when Democrats are savaging House Republicans for expanding work requirements in Medicaid and SNAP, their signature child care bill also contains them.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Undoing Welfare Reform
If Congress makes the expanded Child Tax Credit permanent, simple, and universal, it could have reverberations across the entire welfare state.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Biden’s Child Tax Credit as Universal Basic Income
The most transformative part of the American Rescue Plan will be very hard for Republicans to reverse.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Trump Administration Plans to Kick Three Million Off Food Stamps
Once more bypassing Congress to stick it to the safety net, and lying about its intentions to boot
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Idle Poor and the Idle Rich
Republicans attack the welfare system because they say the poor need to work, but they reduced the incentive of the rich to work by gutting the estate tax.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Tennessee Republicans Experience Cognitive Dissonance on Poverty
Tennessee has increased welfare benefits for the first time in 22 years, while also proposing to kick people off medical and food assistance.