Social Policy

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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.