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You’ve probably heard about means testing during past presidential campaigns. Maybe you’ve even been on the receiving end of a liberal lecture about how important means testing is. But what exactly does this practice accomplish? In this week’s video, we’re diving into the philosophy of means testing and figuring out what it’s good for, if anything.
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SOURCES:
ProPublica report
https://www.propublica.org/article/states-are-hoarding-52-billion-in-welfare-funds-even-as-the-need-for-aid-grows
Texas TANF requirements
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/welfare-funds-going-unspent-pandemic-increased-poverty-moral-outrage-n1286863
Universalism & solidarity
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/12/policy-feedback-working-class-bernie-sanders-gi-bill
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/donald-trump-democratic-party-welfare-state
https://theweek.com/articles/601672/just-give-welfare-everyone
MMT videos
https://youtu.be/fg0R9Ye2ovM
https://youtu.be/75udjh6hkOs
Beyond welfare
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/12/beyond-the-welfare-state/
Policy feedback
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-polisci-012610-135202
Means testing
https://www.vox.com/2021/10/15/22722418/means-testing-social-spending-reconciliation-bill
Means testing costs study
https://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/ss-2011-03.pdf
Programs that use the OPM
https://www.hhs.gov/answers/hhs-administrative/what-programs-use-the-poverty-guidelines/index.html
Drug testing for public services
https://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/drug-testing-and-public-assistance.aspx
Deaths from lack of social support/poverty
https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/how-many-us-deaths-are-caused-poverty-lack-education-and-other-social-factors
74% American adults say no to cuts to social security
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/03/21/retirement-social-security-and-long-term-care/
Trump cuts to housing, food, health for low- & middle-income Americans
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/trump-budget-deeply-cuts-health-housing-other-assistance-for-low-and
Mollie Orshansky and the OPM
https://aspe.hhs.gov/topics/poverty-economic-mobility/poverty-guidelines/further-resources-poverty-measurement-poverty-lines-their-history/history-poverty-thresholds
Manchin on the radio
https://wvmetronews.com/podcast/talkline/
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/20/joe-manchin/sen-manchin-wrong-means-testing-child-tax-credit-b/
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