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Bridging Employment Gaps for Black Men: The Need for Policy Reforms
Explore how targeted policies can help address the high unemployment rates and economic disparities faced by Black men. Learn about the impact of subsidized employment programs and how improving job opportunities can positively affect...
Healthcare Triage
Carrot vs Stick: The Social Safety Net, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Work Requirements
In the next year and a half, we here at Healthcare Triage are going to take some deep dives into issues of health policy, especially those that touch on social determinants of health and health equity. The episodes that do so will be a...
Healthcare Triage
The Reality of Work Requirements for Medicaid
We’ve spent the last few weeks talking work requirements for safety net programs, and it’s all been leading up to this: work requirements for Medicaid. By looking at the EITC and TANF, we learned some things. Can these lessons inform...
Healthcare Triage
TANF, Cash Assistance, and How Work Requirements Effect Poverty Relief
Last week we talked about different ways to promote work in safety net programs: incentives or carrots, like the Earned Income Tax Credit and disincentives or sticks like work requirements. Policy makers have tried out work requirements...