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May 29, 2025
How Non-disabled Medicaid Recipients Without Children Spend Their Time
…a good idea. Other factors that policymakers should consider include, for example, impacts on work and other community engagement, government spending, costs to hospitals, and the health and mortality risks…
May 28, 2025
An Evaluation of Approaches to Cut and Reform SNAP
…SNAP, look at some of the ways they could feasibly go about doing so, and then evaluating what the implications would be for some important outcomes that policy makers should…
May 19, 2025
The Case for Shifting More Welfare Costs to States
…grim federal fiscal outlook suggests that, even if cost shifts are not enacted through this reconciliation legislation, in the long run federal policymakers will have no choice but to transition…
May 6, 2025
What DOGE Flagged as Unemployment Fraud Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg—Most of Which Will Never Be Recovered
…projected in fraud involving pandemic unemployment benefits. It gets worse. A recent Department of Labor (DOL) Inspector General report leaves little doubt that nearly all of these losses, which veteran lawmakers have called “the greatest theft of tax dollars in US…
April 23, 2025
In Case of Emergency, Open Block Grant: Part 2
…of means-tested programs. Part 2 reviews several rhetorical advantages for policymakers of similarly converting other open-ended entitlement programs to block grants, and offers concluding thoughts. Part 2: Rhetorical Advantages of…
April 23, 2025
In Case of Emergency, Open Block Grant: Part 1
…of means-tested programs. Part 2 reviews several rhetorical advantages for policymakers of similarly converting other open-ended entitlement programs to block grants, and offers concluding thoughts. Part 1: The TANF Block…
April 8, 2025
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Supporting Employment
…unemployment rates are low. Third, to strengthen the connection between SNAP and employment policymakers can focus on two key areas: strengthening and expanding work requirements and addressing benefit cliffs. These…
March 27, 2025
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
…not CBO’s 154 percent. Given this unprecedented situation, you might expect federal policymakers to prioritize deficit reduction this year. But the recently passed House budget resolution would add around $3 trillion to the…
March 24, 2025
Keeping Medicaid Sustainable While Prioritizing the Vulnerable
…and benefits of various reform proposals affecting children, working-age adults, and the elderly? How can policymakers best prioritize vulnerable populations as they debate ways to make Medicaid spending growth sustainable?…
February 28, 2025
Less Than Half of Medicaid Recipients Work Enough to Comply With a Work Requirement
…policymakers should consider when determining whether to institute a Medicaid work requirement, the form it should take, and to whom it should apply. For example, such factors should include the…