Jamie Bryan Hall is a research fellow in quantitative analysis with the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation.
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“If you’re five-foot-three and you’re 300 pounds, taxes ought not to pay for your bags of Fudge Rounds,” opines Oliver Anthony in his No. 1… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The media has given outsized attention to minor modifications to work requirements for welfare recipients in the debt ceiling deal between President Joe Biden and… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
As Congress considers the debt ceiling deal negotiated by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, here’s what you need to know about the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This month’s midterm elections might have come with a high price tag. The outgoing majority might attempt to push through the last of its remaining… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Imagine that a progressive American city creates a financial incentive for residents to “transition” from man to woman or from woman to man. That’s exactly… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Democrats are proposing the largest increase in means-tested welfare in U.S. history by far. The latest Democrat tax-and-spend reconciliation bill (also known as the Build… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Editor’s note: This commentary was written and published before the coronavirus pandemic began to disrupt life and work in America and around the world. The… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Trump administration on Wednesday released a final rule strengthening work requirements in the food stamp program. Predictably, it set off alarms on the left…. Read More
Health CareCommentary
Under “Medicare for All,” three quarters of Americans would be worse off financially, according to new research from The Heritage Foundation. Here’s the bottom line:… Read More
SocietyCommentary
President Donald Trump has an opportunity to do what Congress should be doing, but isn’t: Help Americans who are on food stamps transition to work…. Read More
