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The US Needs a New Safety Net
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5GqvbPBdtV3TAeZFqWmWjH?si=lEX53xj7Smucu3BlHhYjAw Congress is considering a major anti-poverty reform: giving states more flexibility to redesign welfare and social safety net programs. In this episode, AEI Senior Fellow Angela Rachidi joins host…
Op-Ed
Why Mamdani’s Foster Care Cuts Make Sense
…make them safe. Last week, Angela Burton, a child welfare abolitionist who was a short-list candidate to head the ACS, proposed creating a separate New York City Office of Child…
Testimony
Stranded by the Safety Net: Addressing Benefit Cliffs to Assist Families and Businesses
Chairman Ernst, Ranking Member Markey, and members of the Small Business Committee. Thank you for the opportunity to testify. My name is Angela Rachidi, and I am a Senior Fellow…
Op-Ed
Dem Policymakers Plan to Exploit AI Job Fears to Push the ‘Perfect Recipe for Fraud’
…the 1960s. None, obviously, was designed with AI-induced job challenges in mind. That creates an opening for realistic reformers. As my colleague Angela Rachidi and I sketched out in the new American…
Report
How Policy and Demographics Are Reshaping SNAP: From Families with Children to Older Adults
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COSM Commentary
Understanding the Recent Declines in SNAP Participation
The number of people receiving food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has declined in recent months, with suggestions that declines are due to the Republican-backed reconciliation bill…
Article
Compiling My Work on Work Incentives
…Angela Rachidi, Matt Weidinger, and me on the importance of work incentives in evaluating safety net policies, as well as a few multi-authored pieces. Beyond these highlights, on the webpage…
Commentary
Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…4, 2024, https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4572496-bidens-tax-cut-rhetoric-is-really-just-code-for-benefit-increases/. [21] For a comprehensive review of benefit cliffs and their implications, see Angela Rachidi et al., Stranded by the Safety Net: How to Fix the Benefit Cliff Problem, American Enterprise…
Op-Ed
No, It Doesn’t Make Sense to Give Cash to a Drug-Abusing Parent
…safety out the window. The introduction to the paper is written by none other than Angela Burton, who was until a couple of weeks ago a finalist for the job of…
Op-Ed
For Progressive Child-Welfare Activists, Adults—Not Kids—Are the Priority
…Angela Burton and Joyce MacMillan, who have “lived experience” in the child-welfare system (meaning that they have been investigated and had their children removed). Today, they spend a lot of…
Op-Ed
AI Changes NOTHING About What Students Need to Learn
…liberal arts, Angela Bauer, the provost at Texas Woman’s University, urges a “seismic shift” in which colleges “transition from a content-based curriculum” and “knowledge-based tests” to “experiential learning theory.” Though she…