A recent study highlighted by The New York Times casts doubt on this progressive approach to helping struggling families. But the study is hardly definitive—and we’re missing the bigger picture.

We might be witnessing the demise—in uneven fits and starts—of Democrats’ poisonous “reform” thinking. All it took was a global health catastrophe.

The Utah senator’s plan for a basic income for families is an improvement on what’s out there. It’s also an incredibly narrow vision of what the government can do for the most vulnerable.