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July 9, 2025
Timothy Noah
The “Undeserving Poor” Deserve Medicaid
Most able-bodied Medicaid recipients already have jobs, but those who don’t should receive health care too.
May 19, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Rick Scott Reveals He Has No Idea How Health Insurance Works
The Republican senator known for massive Medicare fraud made a shocking argument while defending Medicaid work requirements.
May 12, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Republicans Are Already in Revolt Over Medicaid Cuts
Some Republican lawmakers are ready to kill the upcoming budget bill for not being cruel enough.
May 5, 2025
Grace Segers
The Republican Budget Plan Could Kick Millions Off Medicaid
As GOP lawmakers mull how to slash federal spending, health care for low-income Americans could be first on the chopping block.
April 10, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Mike Johnson Reveals His Disastrous Plans for Medicaid
The House speaker has a cruel plan now that he’s passed the budget.
June 2, 2023
Grace Segers
The Work Requirements Fight Isn’t Over
Conservatives grumble that the debt ceiling deal was insufficient. Can they force new talks on work requirements?
May 24, 2023
Grace Segers
Childless Adults Will Bear the Brunt of Republican Cuts to the Safety Net
The GOP wants additional work requirements for SNAP and Medicaid beneficiaries in the debt ceiling deal, despite evidence that shows they are ineffective.
April 19, 2023
Prem Thakker
House GOP’s Debt Ceiling “Plan” Calls for Medicaid and SNAP Work Requirements
The Republican proposal would fail at addressing the debt but would succeed in making people’s lives worse in more ways than one.
April 6, 2023
Grace Segers
The Republican Plan to Cut the Deficit on the Backs of Struggling Americans
The GOP is again pushing for harsher work requirements for Medicaid and SNAP—even though it would barely dent our national debt.
April 28, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
On Biden’s American Families Plan and Resisting the Conservative Politics of Care
The president’s forthcoming proposal on care could both meaningfully address the current crisis and open up space for more radical demands about work and family life.
May 12, 2020
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 31, 2017
Clio Chang
The GOP is pushing hard for work requirements. Democrats shouldn’t let them.
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