Thursday, July 23, 2020

The pandemic is not a good reason to expand a flawed safety net | American Enterprise Institute - AEI

It’s time to enact policies that expect work in exchange for benefits, writes AEI scholar Angela Rachidi.


Mindlessly expanding safety net programs in the wake of COVID-19 reinforces a broken approach. Instead, we need to reduce steep “taxes” on low-income families for earning more from work and enact policies that expect work in exchange for benefits.

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from Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs The pandemic is not a good reason to expand a flawed safety net | American Enterprise Institute - AEI