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Op-Ed
Don’t Count on Those $5,000 Trump Dividend Checks
…have been eligible for a maximum of $10,000 per month or an astonishing $120,000 per year, nearly double the U.S. median household income of $68,000 in 2020. Across 42 months, the proposed…
Commentary
The Medicaid Work Requirement’s Gambling Loophole
…minimum one month while the other two states chose the maximum three months. To satisfy the requirement in a given month, a recipient must work, train for work, or engage…
Commentary
The Empty Threat That States Will Stop Operating SNAP
…for a fifth of the states. In other words, even if all states were liable for the maximum cost share of 15 percent, they would still pay a significantly smaller…
Op-Ed
The Ongoing Battle to Defend Welfare Reform
…CTC to a child allowance. Democrats’ attempts to make the policy permanent later that year failed, but just barely. As the fight over the policy neared its climax, more than…
Op-Ed
Microfinance Failures
…Development; the governments of Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands; the U.S. Agency for International Development; and the Ford Foundation. Those institutions did not insist upon repayment in the manner of for-profit…
Commentary
Zoning Creates Not Just a Housing Affordability Problem, but a Childcare Affordability Problem Too
…other areas of regulatory and zoning reform, reforms in this area should take place at the state level for maximum impact. State pre-emption of zoning is the gold standard, in…
Blog Post
Chairman Smith Is Right About the Need for a Site-Neutral Policy in Medicare
…that is closest to the patients to determine how to allocate the available resources, which by necessity must be limited, in a manner that maximizes the health benefits for patients….
COSM Commentary
Understanding the Recent Declines in SNAP Participation
…disruptions had largely ended. The sustained SNAP increase coincided with several policy decisions, including waiving work requirements, temporarily increasing benefits through September 2021, and a permanent increase in the maximum…
Blog Post
Refocusing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation on Achieving Deep Cost Reductions
…should make maximum use of a powerful existing tool—the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, or CMMI—to cut health entitlement expenditures. In 1980, combined federal spending on Medicare and Medicaid was…
Op-Ed
No, It Doesn’t Make Sense to Give Cash to a Drug-Abusing Parent
…when you’re going to see them again,” Max Selver told Gothamist. Selver, the lawyer representing Meredith Trainor in a federal lawsuit filed last week against the city’s Administration for Children’s Services for…
Commentary
Time Limits and Work Requirements Would Improve Subsidized Housing Programs
…deep and long-lasting. In the voucher program, recipient families pay 30% of their monthly income toward rent, and the federal government pays the rest, up to a maximum rent level…
Blog Post
Tariffs Cannot Fully Replace the Income Tax
…taxable imports by 95 percent, leaving little for tariffs to tax. Even a tariff calibrated to maximize revenue would still fall short. At an elasticity of -2.5, the revenue-maximizing effective…