Day: December 15, 2012

If the IPAB is not staffed …

Austin Frakt December 15, 2012

Margot Sanger-Katz, about the IPAB, in a gated National Journal piece from October: So far, the board has done nothing at all. Although it received

Nicholas Kristof on the childhood SSI program (2/2–with graph)

Harold Pollack December 15, 2012

As I noted in my last post, Nicholas Kristof’s column left the impression that welfare dependence is a growing, chronic problem fed by ballooning SSI

“Profiting from a child’s illiteracy,” Nicholas Kristof on the childhood SSI program (1/2)

Harold Pollack December 15, 2012

It’s hard to write about anything this weekend beyond the awful events in Connecticut. Maybe the best we can do right now to honor yesterday’s