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Welfare reform
August 20, 2021
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Bryce Covert
The End of “the End of Welfare As We Know It”
We might be witnessing the demise—in uneven fits and starts—of Democrats’ poisonous “reform” thinking. All it took was a global health catastrophe.
May 12, 2020
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J.C. Pan
Work Requirements Have Always Been About Punishment
The pandemic has offered a brief respite from policies that force people to work to “deserve” basic support like food stamps. We can’t go back.
March 13, 2020
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Karina Piser
Trump Is Cutting Food Stamps During a Pandemic
More than half a million SNAP recipients are on the edge of losing access to the crucial food safety net—just as they need it most.
September 29, 2017
Sarah Jaffe
Socialized Medicine Has Won the Health Care Debate
Lindsey Graham and the Republicans tried to use the "S-word" to scare Americans about health care. It doesn't work anymore.
September 21, 2017
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Bryce Covert
Deadbeat Democrats
How Bill Clinton set the stage for the GOP's war on the poor.
June 22, 2017
Clio Chang
How the Rhetoric of Responsibility Hurts the Welfare State
Yascha Mounk's new book charts the rise of an approach that punishes the poor.
May 4, 2017
Clio Chang
The GOP health care bill ramps up Washington’s war on the poor.
September 21, 2016
Clio Chang
One presidential candidate has a plan to address poverty. Guess who?
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