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June 23, 2023
SNAP Can Improve Nutrition, Help Farmers, and Support the Environment
…poor health. Policies around agriculture subsidies in the U.S. are complex with many competing interests, but lawmakers must consider the broader impact of farm subsidies on health and the ultimate…
June 16, 2023
The Missing Context Behind “Cuts” in Fast-Growing Welfare Programs
…Bill, lawmakers should recognize that the debt limit negotiations lacked important context. While the debate often focused on comparatively modest reductions in benefit receipt, it totally ignored significant and ongoing…
June 15, 2023
Our Children Need to Be Involved in Religious Institutions
…their true impact on me until last week. The couples were all members of my childhood synagogue, Congregation Beth T’fillah of Overbrook Park, a house of worship that was once…
June 14, 2023
Better Data Means Better Policy
…earnings and income estimates that will be more accurate and, as such, a better tool for policymakers. It’s bigger news than it might seem. If nominal income rises by 5…
June 7, 2023
Don’t Give Away the Farm Bill
…GOP lawmakers should focus on reining in President Biden’s unprecedented and expensive food-stamp hike. The American Rescue Plan’s temporary 15% increase in food-stamp benefits was set to expire shortly after…
June 7, 2023
Don’t Give Away the Farm Bill
…GOP lawmakers should focus on reining in President Biden’s unprecedented and expensive food-stamp hike. The American Rescue Plan’s temporary 15% increase in food-stamp benefits was set to expire shortly after…
June 2, 2023
America’s Failing Child-Protection System
…which was passed in 1997, required states to make “reasonable efforts” at family preservation before terminating parental rights. But lawmakers allowed that there might be “aggravated circumstances” that would make…
May 31, 2023
Ending the Small Checks Scam
…“work participation rate,” an adult must be on TANF, which paid monthly benefits ranging from $146 in Mississippi to $862 in New Hampshire in 2020. Enter clever state lawmakers, who in the…
May 30, 2023
Parenting While High
…heavy machinery or practicing medicine. In all these cases, lawmakers have drawn a bright line. Even in localities where drug use is legal, parenting young children while intoxicated should not…
May 19, 2023
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: America Today
…will not protect one from audits and resulting interest payments. More broadly put, the activities of lawbreakers are being combated by targeting the law-abiding. So it is even in daily…