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Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse

…Health Insurance Program Consolidated Health Centers Breast/Cervical Cancer Early Detection Indian Health Service Family Planning Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Transitional Cash and Medical Services for Refugees State Grants and Demonstrations…

Commentary

The Policy Lessons from Minnesota’s Massive Welfare Fraud

…had a staggering 36 percent improper payment rate. But the scandal-plagued Minnesota programs originated well before the pandemic. Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Rufo report the Feeding our Future program was…

Op-Ed

Stop the insanity. Our national debt now tops $35 trillion…

America’s political leaders have a spending problem.  They know entitlement programs feature benefit promises far exceeding their tax base, but have done nothing to make them sound. Meanwhile, both parties demand…

Commentary

How Many Forms of “Wage Insurance” Do We Need, Exactly?

…Scott Winship, “A Safety Net for the Future: Overcoming the Root Causes of Poverty,” in American Renewal, ed. Paul Ryan and Angela Rachidi. Consider just some of the major social…

Blog Post

House Budget Plan Proposes Commonsense Welfare Changes

…Rachidi and former House Speaker Paul Ryan, was released last fall. A chapter in that volume authored by Rachidi, Scott Winship, and one of us (Matt Weidinger), titled “A Safety Net for the Future: Overcoming the…