October 30, 2022
Less Activation in US Social Assistance Programs?
Editor’s Note: This chapter is shared here thanks to special permission from Oxford University Press….
March 2, 2021
Democrats’ Stealth Plan to Enact Universal Basic Income
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 temporarily expanded the child tax credit by increasing benefit amounts, making the credit fully refundable (that is, payable without regard to earnings for the first time), and distributing payments monthly. The effect was a child allowance providing monthly government benefit checks to parents regardless of work—a de facto universal basic income for parents. That temporary policy shift moved away from the framework established by the 1996 welfare reform law, which ended the widespread payment of work-free welfare checks.
January 29, 2019
Policies Favoring Welfare over Work Are Not Answers for Ending Poverty
The American policy debate is undergoing an important change. Some influential Democrats no longer view…