Civil rights is the great unfinished business of America.
they have a plan for replacing the sequester.
You cannot learn if you live in a violent, abusive neighborhood.
It ignores the advice of bipartisan commissions that say that any credible, responsible approach to reducing the deficit...
While today's hearing is titled 'Strengthening the Safety Net,' it is mostly an effort to sugarcoat a Republican budget ...
It is one designed to tell Americans that these social safety nets are not necessary because people choose these safety ...
the Republican budget refuses to eliminate one single tax break for the purpose of deficit reduction.
The people that are visiting your offices are terrified that the Republican approach to Medicaid will be adopted.
The Republican budget cuts $810 billion from Medicaid.
What honest observer of government could disagree?
It means that their budget hits everyone and everything else harder. That is simple math.
I think going forward, we should keep in mind this distinction between means-tested health programs and other programs.
Part of the discussion too saying we want to move people from tax-eaters to taxpayers is part of this.
I would argue, as well as probably most people on our side of the aisle, that the Affordable Care Act helped address a l...
It attempts to balance the federal budget on the backs of the poor, by gutting federal spending on safety net programs.
I think that this test-driven mentality that we have in the country has been a disservice to most of us.
I think it would be better if we tried to take the programs that work, try and refine them.
First, I would observe that while spending on safety net programs is high now it is largely the function of the economic...
