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July 17, 2023
The Problem with Lived Experience
…Verghese, whose group includes the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MacKenzie Scott, and the Skoll Foundation, says this shift has been “the result of generations of change makers calling on…
July 10, 2023
Reforming the EITC to Reduce Single Parenthood and Ease Work-Family Balance
…should torment policymakers today. One way that policy can potentially reverse this trend is by addressing the ways that our safety net has weakened marital childbearing and childrearing. But we…
July 3, 2023
Child Welfare’s Ideological Enforcer
…media can influence the funding flows and intellectual trajectory of the field. It will take some brave researchers, editors, and policymakers to steer child welfare policy away from their nonsense….
June 30, 2023
House Republican Plan Penalizes Marriage
…is a family-friendly contingent among congressional Republicans in the Senate, led by figures such as Sens. Marco Rubio, Marsha Blackburn, Mitt Romney, Mike Lee, and J.D. Vance. These lawmakers recognize…
June 27, 2023
House Republican Plan Penalizes Marriage
…than 50 percent national caseload decline following the 1996 reforms, meant that within a few years the average state had effectively no work requirement. So lawmakers included a simple update to the caseload reduction credit in the 2006 Deficit…
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…