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Welfare Reform and Its Discontents
…and Scott Winship, “The Demise of the Happy Two-Parent Home,” 2020, US Congress Joint Economic Committee, https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2020/7/the-demise-of-the-happy-two-parent-home. Scott Winship, “A Half-Century Decline in Marriage…That Ended 30 Years Ago for Disadvantaged Kids,”…
Testimony
Welfare Reform and Its Discontents
…on, welfare reform requires defending. Skeptics must be reminded of—or introduced to—the evidence of its success and the risks of rolling back its essential features. Read full testimony here. Winship_welfare_reform_testimonyDownload…
Op-Ed
The Ongoing Battle to Defend Welfare Reform
…debunked, first by one of us (Winship) and then by Bruce Meyer and his colleagues. Winship found that essentially no children resided in families that lived on $2 a day per person…
Commentary
Lessons from the 1996 Welfare Reform Law Approaching Its 30th Anniversary
…Welfare Reform Angela Rachidi, Matt Weidinger, and Scott Winship, A Safety Net for the Future: Overcoming the Root Causes of Poverty, October 2022 Matt Weidinger, Missing the Big Picture on…
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
Trump Houses Are a Good Idea—If
…Ultimately, the President or Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner will have to use their bully pulpits to convince communities that Trump Houses are a good idea. …
Op-Ed
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
Let’s start with a chart to understand the dire fiscal situation we are in as a nation. Figure 1. Federal Debt Held by the Public as a Share of Gross…
Commentary
A Model for Effective and Reasonable Work Requirements
…Director for the Bronx, one of us (Scott Wetzler) has considerable experience implementing the WeCARE program model in a fair, reasonable, and effective manner. Applicants for TANF benefits who self-identify…
Op-Ed
Snip, Snip: Spending Cuts Are Coming
…foreseeable future. Just the interest on the debt totals almost $1 trillion per year, exceeding the cost of national defense. For Republicans, the underlying problem is simple: As Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described in his…
Op-Ed
Tax Policy Should Prioritize Shoring Up the Family
During the Biden years, tax policy related to the family revolved around the child tax credit (CTC). Attempts to expand the credit to make it easier for two-parent families to…
Commentary
Exploring Trends in Food Bank Use
…ask nearly identical questions, results from the HPS can differ substantially from the FSS. For example, a 2021 report by one of us (Rachidi, with co-author Scott Winship) demonstrated the…