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Understanding the Downbeat Coverage of Encouraging Poverty Data (opens the original)
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Last week’s annual Census Bureau poverty report offered encouraging news about growing US incomes and declining poverty in 2025. As the Bureau’s press release highlighted, real median household income reached “$87,460 in 2025, the highest on record dating back to 1967.” Meanwhile, according to the nation’s official poverty measure (OPM) developed in the 1960s, the overall poverty rate, along with the rate for Hispanics and children, all fell to historic lows. But you wouldn’t know about any of t
Don’t count on those $5,000 Trump dividend checks (opens the original)
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At his party’s midterm convention in Texas, President Donald Trump said that, if Republicans retain control of Congress in November, he “will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000.” That pledge reflects an epic lack of subtlety, even for Trump. It also places him in line with a long history of politicians from both parties who have implicitly and sometimes explicitly tried to buy votes with promises of government largesse. Given Trump’s other recent f
The Empty Threat That States Will Stop Operating SNAP (opens the original)
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Last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) gave states a choice: Either limit improper payments in their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, the program formerly known as food stamps) or start sharing in the cost of paying for those benefits, which were previously covered entirely by the federal government. SNAP payment error rates have been steadily climbing in recent years, raising concerns over waste and program integrity. The cost share requirement will incentivize states to
Thirty Years Later, Welfare Reform Is Still a Model That Works (opens the original)
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As the 30th anniversary of the historic 1996 welfare reform law approaches on August 22, its legacy remains remarkably positive. Official government data confirm the law’s results include more work and earnings among low-income single mothers, matched by less poverty and dependence on welfare checks. The law also sharply reduced welfare payments to groups that should never have been on the dole, including noncitizens, inmates, and drug addicts, yielding major and continuing savings for taxpayers
Lessons from the 1996 Welfare Reform Law Approaching Its 30th Anniversary (opens the original)
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The 1996 welfare reform law was crafted by congressional Republicans and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 22, 1996. As the 30th anniversary of the law approaches, below are data about some of its major effects, along with a discussion of key lessons for further reforms to the US safety net. One of the signature events affecting the direction of American social policy was the enactment of the 1996 welfare reform law (P.L. 104-193, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunit
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