The naysayers revolting against the executive order President Trump signed this week, seeking to expand work requirements for people receiving food stamps, misplace their benevolence. Rather than branding work as a four-letter word,...
What Trump gets right about moving from welfare to work
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Trump's inherited entitlement reform crisis needs tackling
President Donald J. Trump inherited a mess from his predecessors. The leaders of the past implemented a foreign policy of the United States that strayed from an “America First” goal, while bad trade deals were cut with China, Mexico and Canada. With...
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Bipartisan consensus on paid family leave is a terrible thing to waste
Earlier this month, a bipartisan group convened by the American Enterprise Institute and The Brookings Institution released a report about paid family and medical leave.I was delighted to be part of this group, but I’m fearful that the result,...
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Free health care is going to be very expensive
During a snowstorm last year, I rear-ended an SUV in the Connecticut suburbs. I chose an authorized repair shop, one that was deputized by my car insurance company so no adjuster was needed to survey the damage. The estimate was $5,000 to repair the...
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Many Americans support paid family leave — until they see the cost
Washington state is on the cusp of implementing a statewide paid leave program on Jan. 1, and Washington, D.C. passed a paid leave policy expected to take effect in 2020. While state and city paid leave programs roll out, there is...
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Legislation even a divided Congress can pass
Expectations are low that a House controlled by the Democrats and a Senate controlled by the Republicans can pass legislation that will improve the lives of U.S. workers.Economist and columnist Paul Krugman caught the zeitgeist when he wrote, “...
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Ivanka must recalibrate her paid family leave plan to make it tenable
On Wednesday, Ivanka Trump headed to Capitol Hill to meet with key Republican members about pushing the paid family leave initiatives that was originally proposed (and ultimately removed from) President Trump’s 2017 budget. I wish...
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Congresswoman Wagner has been a paid leave advocate for decades
Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) recently introduced the New Parents Act. This forward-thinking legislation would offer new parents the option of claiming a paid leave benefit as they welcome their newest family member. Rep. Wagner just took a step to making...
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Judd Gregg: Counting the costs of Democrats' desires
This may be beyond the Count of Sesame Street to count.Even Big Bird with all his or her imagination could not conjure up all this counting for the Count to count.The Democratic Party’s new cast of characters (some old, actually) seeking the...
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Medicare for all: fears and facts
Each candidate has their own way to fix what ails health insurance. Everyone claimed “Medicare” at the heart of their strategy. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) urged sweeping reform, while former Vice President Joe...
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We need a social justice movement for older workers
This Friday, as it does every month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the unemployment rate for September 2019. Likely, it will remain close to its current 3.7 percent, and a mix of analysts, talking heads, and politicians, will discuss...
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Coronavirus response must include bold fiscal policy
By all indications, if unabated, the economic damage Americans experience resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic could be severe, with a far sharper downturn than a typical recession. This is a public health crisis, but it is rapidly becoming an...
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We must keep our children and families strong during this pandemic
All Americans want the same things — we want our children to be safe and healthy, our neighborhoods to be secure, our economy to be strong, and our friends and families to unite and lift each other in this time of crisis. Congress and the White...
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Use work-sharing unemployment insurance to pay people to stay home
State and local officials have ordered more than 100 million Americans nationwide to stay home, businesses to close and public events to shut down. California, alone, where residents have been ordered to stay home, has the world’s fifth-largest...
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COVID-19 highlights — and intensifies — our mistreatment of the poor
The interaction of a raging pandemic and a deep recession are requiring government to take on numerous new tasks. Even more striking, it is asking us to reverse course on several important policies that have become well-entrenched over the years....
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Downturn in the economy, uptick in exploitation
As a consequence of the economic fallout from COVID-19, nearly one in five renters didn’t make their May payments and housing groups across the US reported a rise in tenants’ sexual harassment complaints. The uptick in complaints is happening...
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Congress must fill the leadership void
President Trump is promising a swift and seamless economic recovery if only the states will hurry up and lift their stay-at-home orders. “Those jobs will be back and they’ll be back very soon,” he said, reacting to last month’s horrendous spike in...
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Don't end expanded unemployment insurance: Improve it
We stand at the precipice of another Great Depression. In a matter of weeks, 41 million workers have lost their jobs, and the unemployment rate may soon surpass its peak in the Great Depression. To help address this crisis, The Coronavirus Aid,...
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National housing policy needs a complete renovation
America’s national housing policy urgently needs a foundation-to-roof renovation. As COVID-19 now threatens to induce a surge of evictions and greater homelessness, and perhaps again later with a second wave of disease, this policy utterly lacks the...
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Congress needs to revitalize the Supplemental Security Income program for the elderly
Many people think the Social Security Act passed during the Great Depression was only about creating the Social Security program. The Act, however, brought into existence the entire structure of the country’s current income support system...
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