How Fixing SNAP’s Payment Error Rate Formula Would Change State Cost Shares
August 19, 2026 | Kevin Corinth
For the first time in the history of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), starting…
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The Ongoing Battle to Defend Welfare Reform
August 15, 2026 | Scott Winship and Kevin Corinth
Welfare reform replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families…
The Misleading Narrative About the ‘Hollowing Out’ of the Middle Class
August 12, 2026 | Scott Winship
The prevailing media narrative after years of mounting economic inequality is that the middle class…
Thirty Years Later, Welfare Reform Is Still a Model That Works
August 8, 2026 | Matt Weidinger
The real lesson of the 1996 law remains that there is a better way for Americans in need, if only today’s lawmakers match their forebears in choosing it.
Paying for Payment Errors: State Incentives and Caseload Responses to SNAP Cost Sharing
July 30, 2026 | Kevin Corinth
Abstract Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) caseloads declined by 10% nationally from June 2025 to…
Comment on CMS-2454-IFC: Clarifying “Household” for the SNAP Exclusion from the Medicaid Community Engagement Requirement
July 29, 2026 | Kevin Corinth
Comment on Interim Final Rule by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of…
SNAP’s New Cost Share Requirement Is a Blunt, But Necessary Tool
July 28, 2026 | Angela Rachidi
Last month, the US Department of Agriculture released the most recent Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program…
Lessons from the 1996 Welfare Reform Law Approaching Its 30th Anniversary
July 24, 2026 | Matt Weidinger
The actual effects of the law—especially in promoting more work and earnings and less poverty and welfare dependence—exceeded what even some of the law’s strongest advocates anticipated.
