Social Policy

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• 4/9/2023
  

  SCOTUS Arguments in Debt Relief Cases Show the Fracturing of the Bipartisan "Education Myth"

  by Jon Shelton

  Two Justice's preoccupation with the fairness of relieving student debt proclaimed a concern that the government not pick economic winners and losers. But the student debt crisis reflects a decades-long bipartisan sales pitch, backed by policy, that college is the individual's path to prosperity. That pitch is now wearing thin. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  11/21/2022
  

  The Clinton-Era Law that Still Devastates Black Families

  by Dorothy E. Roberts

  The Adoption and Safe Families Act mandated state intervention to protect children from neglect, but did nothing to ensure an economic and social safety net to mitigate hardship. The result, spurred by anti-Black tropes, was an acceleration of family breakup by state agencies. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  12/2/2021
  

  In Praise of One-Size-Fits-All Social Policy

  by Lawrence B. Glickman

  "To call a vaccine mandate a constraint on an “intensely personal decision” is to obfuscate the fundamental reality that pandemics are intensely social."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/29/2021
  

  Work Requirements Would Undo A Signature Biden Accomplishment

  by Molly Michelmore

  An expanded Child Tax Credit would potentially reduce child poverty by 40%. Placing work requirements on the credit would harm children for the sake of the historic pattern of policing the line between the deserving and undeserving poor. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/6/2020
  

  Richard Nixon Bears Responsibility for the Pandemic’s Child-Care Crisis

  by Anna K. Danziger Halperin

  Today’s child-care crisis may have been fueled by the outbreak, but it is not new. It has been simmering below the surface for decades and can be traced back to President Richard M. Nixon’s 1971 veto of federally funded universal child care.

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• 4/5/2020
  

  Sick Leave Provisions in the COVID Relief Bill Were Historic. That's the Problem.

  by Vicki Shabo

  It is well past time for lawmakers to provide permanent paid sick days protections, so that no one is forced to work sick, risk their paycheck or risk their job.