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October 28, 2025
Suspending SNAP Benefits in November Could Push 2.9 Million People Into Poverty
…most important safety net programs in the United States, providing food assistance to 42.7 million people in an average month in 2024, at an annual cost of just over $100 billion. Policymakers…
July 30, 2025
It’s Not Surprising That No-Strings Attached Cash Didn’t Help Kids
…decent chance of being revived by policymakers in the future. Additional studies of the same rigor as Baby’s First Years should be encouraged. A major caveat of the Baby’s First…
June 4, 2025
Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods
…poor communities. The House bill nods to this idea by enhancing incentives for investment in rural areas. But lawmakers shouldn’t favor rural areas over urban ones. Third, Congress should steer…
May 29, 2025
How Non-disabled Medicaid Recipients Without Children Spend Their Time
…a good idea. Other factors that policymakers should consider include, for example, impacts on work and other community engagement, government spending, costs to hospitals, and the health and mortality risks…
May 28, 2025
An Evaluation of Approaches to Cut and Reform SNAP
…SNAP, look at some of the ways they could feasibly go about doing so, and then evaluating what the implications would be for some important outcomes that policy makers should…
February 28, 2025
Less Than Half of Medicaid Recipients Work Enough to Comply With a Work Requirement
…policymakers should consider when determining whether to institute a Medicaid work requirement, the form it should take, and to whom it should apply. For example, such factors should include the…
February 18, 2025
Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress
…marriage penalties are three specific areas of interest to lawmakers who want to make America more family friendly. Read the PDF. Introduction America is in a baby bust, with birth…
February 4, 2025
The Family First Act Would Expand Net Income Tax Refunds to Higher Income Families
…families in the top half of the income distribution. At a time when lawmakers are seeking ways to reduce the federal deficit, they should consider whether these changes are prudent….
December 30, 2024
What’s behind the unprecedented rise in homelessness, and how can we reverse it?
…research published in 2017 I found only modest effects of permanent supportive housing on homeless populations. Thus, policymakers should not expect that further expansions of the stock of permanent supportive…
October 16, 2024
Kevin Corinth: Addressing Social Capital Poverty in America
…relationship between economic and social factors, highlighting the need for a more comprehensive approach to addressing societal challenges. As policymakers and communities grapple with these issues, Kevin Corinth from the…