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Commentary
The Medicaid Work Requirement’s Gambling Loophole
Medicaid work requirements go into effect across the country on January 1, 2027. Work requirements have previously been applied to cash welfare and food assistance programs. But with the exception…
Multimedia
Kevin Corinth: Growth vs. Redistribution in the Fight Against Poverty
…and how much has come from economic growth?In a recent paper, American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Kevin Corinth and economist Richard Burkhauser examine nearly a century of American poverty trends….
Report
What Can We Learn From Guaranteed Basic Income Pilots In the United States? Evidence on Employment Effects
…the COVID-19 pandemic or soon thereafter, and they might not generalize to a permanent, universal, nationwide GBI implemented during current or future economic and policy conditions. 2026_07 Corinth and Mayhew.GBI.reportDownload…
Blog Post
Welfare Reform and Its Discontents
…2, https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34759/w34759.pdf.) I thank Kevin Corinth for providing the data behind the figures in his paper with Burkhauser. Using administrative data, Kevin Corinth, Bruce Meyer, and Derek Wu found that a…
Commentary
How Fixing SNAP’s Payment Error Rate Formula Would Change State Cost Shares
…continue to exceed underpayments. Source: USDA SNAP Payment Error Rates, Fiscal Year 2025; USDA SNAP State Level Benefit Data; Kevin Corinth, 2026, “Paying for Payment Errors: State Incentives and Caseload…
Op-Ed
The Ongoing Battle to Defend Welfare Reform
…one of us (Corinth) and Meyer in a working paper released a month after the economist letter. Corinth, Meyer, and their colleagues drew on estimates from the academic literature of how sensitive…
Report
Comment on CMS-2454-IFC: Clarifying “Household” for the SNAP Exclusion from the Medicaid Community Engagement Requirement
…definition is better supported by the wording and intent of the statute. Finally, I present estimates of the population affected by this ambiguity. Read full Comment here. Corinth Comment on CMS-2454-IFCDownload…
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Discussing Medicaid work requirements: Corinth on C-SPAN’s ‘Washington Journal’
Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility Deputy Director Kevin Corinth discusses Medicaid work requirements on C-SPAN’s ‘Washington Journal.’…
Article
Poverty and Dependency in the United States, 1939–2023
…research brief is based on Richard V. Burkhauser and Kevin Corinth, “Poverty and Dependency in the United States, 1939–2023,” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper no. 34759, January 2026….
Commentary
Opportunity Book: A New Tool for Connecting Policymakers with Innovative Ideas
Today the Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is releasing Opportunity Book, a new online tool that connects policymakers, journalists, and researchers with innovative…
Blog Post
How Non-disabled Medicaid Recipients Without Children Spend Their Time
The reconciliation bill passed by the United States House of Representatives imposes community engagement requirements for childless non-disabled Medicaid recipients age 19–64, starting in 2027. The requirement can be met…
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An Evaluation of Approaches to Cut and Reform SNAP
…and shifting more of the costs to states. Changes are likely as the Senate takes up the bill, and Kevin Corinth, senior fellow and deputy director of the Center on…