A pro-work approach is better policy for lifting families out of poverty, writes Angela Rachidi. This involves addressing the employment disincentives built into existing federal programs and offering supports such as childcare assistance and the earned income tax credit to working families.
Afghanistan isn’t Vietnam. It isn’t even Iraq. George W. Bush did not lie America into this war. The “revelations” in The Washington Post are only new to people who have forgotten front-page news from a few years ago, explains Frederick Kagan.
The information we have about the US-China deal is promising, writes Derek Scissors. While Chinese concessions will almost surely fall short, the US didn’t give up leverage (as some wanted) and can respond to either meaningful progress by China or the lack.
Scott Gottlieb et al. explain that fulfilling the promise of 21st-century innovative care will require further steps to address issues related to technology access at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and throughout the US health care system.
James Pethokoukis explains that the lowest-paid workers continue to experience faster wage growth than workers overall, which wasn’t the case in the first years of the post–Great Recession recovery. This can be credited more to the length of the US economic expansion, rather than state-level minimum wage increases.
In this volume, scholars and practitioners write from a variety of worldviews and experiences about how qualitative research and ethnography can help us understand drivers of poverty and barriers to social mobility.
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