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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
Why Congress Shouldn’t Change SNAP’s New Payment Error Approach
…Act’s (OBBBA) new requirements surrounding SNAP payment errors and the impact on states, many have overlooked the people most affected by improper payments—low-income households. The national SNAP payment error has…
Blog Post
Welfare Reform and Its Discontents
…Stephanie J. Ventura and Christine A. Bachrach, “Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States, 1940-99,” 2000, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics Report 48(16) (Revised), Table 3, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr48/nvs48_16.pdf; Joyce A….
Op-Ed
Did Fraud Drive Blue States’ Pandemic Unemployment Funds?
…the equivalent of over a decade of typical spending on unemployment benefits, up in smoke. Those are nationwide figures, and little is known about misspending by state. But in a new report, I…
Testimony
Welfare Reform at 30: Major Effects and Lessons for Additional Reform
…history behind and results of the 1996 welfare reform law and concludes with suggestions for improving the effectiveness of our nation’s safety net in helping low-income families prosper. Read the full comment below. WR Testimony on 30thDownload…
Op-Ed
30 Years of Welfare Reform And the Path Forward
…Three decades later, the evidence is clear. Unlike previous reform attempts, PRWORA successfully ended the country’s traditional cash welfare program, transitioning the focus of the nation’s cash welfare program away…
Report
Rings to Roofs, Part I: One Million Homes Through Marriage
…these solutions revolve around ending the ban on starter homes—making it legal to build naturally affordable homes that young and working families can afford to buy and rent. Legalizing starter homes is…
Report
A Review of the Wide Variation Across States in Federal Pandemic Unemployment Benefit Funding
Abstract Federal lawmakers created major temporary unemployment benefit programs during the pandemic, which collectively distributed a record $700 billion to unemployed individuals nationwide. Little attention has been paid to wildly divergent…
Op-Ed
The Path Ahead for Welfare Reform
…fundamental principles of the 1996 law, while adapting to the needs of a modern economy and evolving demographics. The 1996 law replaced the nation’s former cash welfare program, Aid to…
Op-Ed
The Test-Score Mystery
This summer, the nation received the kind of news it is not used to: apparent improvements in test scores. Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress’s long-term trend assessments (NAEP…
Op-Ed
Status Defines Friendship for Too Many Americans
…be achieved only through the shared pursuit of excellence — to the dream of a national service corps that pools young people together across economic lines. Like many of America’s most pressing…
Op-Ed
The Ongoing Battle to Defend Welfare Reform
…a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report on reducing child poverty. The NAS panel began its work on the report in 2017, a year that also saw Democrats in the…