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Is There Really An Epidemic Of Workless Medicaid Recipients?

May 18, 2025 Matt Bruenig, People's Policy Project. , , ,
Today, I wrote a piece for the New York Times titled “Medicaid Work Requirements Are Cruel and Pointless.” The post below about Medicaid utilization in SIPP is an accompaniment to that piece. The New York Times recently ran an opinion piece from RFK Jr. and three other Trump administration officials in which they argue in favor of adding work requirements to Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income Americans. At one point in the piece, they write that: A recent analysis from an economist at the American Enterprise Institute examined survey data from December 2022 (the most recent month available) and found that just 44 percent of able-bodied, working-age Medicaid beneficiaries without dependents worked at least 80 hours in that month.

How Targeting Programs To Poor People Leaves Out Poor People

February 8, 2022 Jim Pugh, In These Times. , , ,
Less than one year ago, the United States government enacted one of the most effective anti-poverty programs in modern history. The Child Tax Credit (CTC), originally established in 1997, was expanded through the American Rescue Plan to provide families with children substantially larger payments, delivered monthly, while making low-income families eligible for the full benefits. This expansion changed the face of child poverty in the United States, lifting over 4 million children above the poverty line—a decrease in poverty of more than 40% — and decreasing food insufficiency for families with children by an estimated 26%. Unfortunately, despite its transformative impact, the expansion of the CTC is now at risk of being lost.
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