Work Requirements – An Ineffective Policy(www.nominalnews.com)
24 pointsby MPLan4 days ago1 comment
  • MPLan4 days ago
    Work requirements are often touted as a remedy to prevent the misuse of benefits. Instead, they only end up harming those who are most in need.

    By looking at a natural experiment, researchers were able to find that work requirements end up pushing the most vulnerable people of the programs.

    • nine_zeros4 days ago
      The goal of republicans was tax cuts for the wealthy. But that required cuts to spending - at least some cuts. So they wanted to cut Medicaid because Medicaid helps the poor. Republicans don't want to help the poor.

      But Medicaid cut would have required a congressional bill with 60 votes in the senate. They were not going to get that. So they added work requirements which basically added a lot of friction to getting Medicaid. Effectively ensuring a spending cut.

      All to give a tax cut to the wealthy.