work requirements

“Folks on Medicaid are often working low-wage jobs, evening and nighttime shifts,” said Dr. John Ayanian, director of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at the University of Michigan. “They don’t have a lot of flexibility to take time...

Celeste Watkins-Hayes and Luke Shaefer comment in the New York Times about the permanent expansion of the child tax credit in President Biden's proposed American Families Plan.   The simplicity of the plan cuts through old ideas of who’s deservin...

Michigan is set to implement Medicaid work requirements in 2020. But Luke Shaefer, professor of public policy and director of Poverty Solutions, warns that the requirement could lead to health coverage losses and an administrative burden on the state...

Renuka Tipirneni, Susan D. Goold, and John Z. Ayanian published a December 11 research letter in JAMA Internal Medicine on “Employment status and health characteristics of adults with expanded Medicaid coverage in Michigan.” The study analyzed th...