Social Security faces a significant challenge, but by no means its only one, in its projected financing shortfall. The program’s uncontrolled further growth in the absence of reform would reduce its effectiveness in supporting a coherent income security policy. If Social Security is to serve...

American neighborhoods have declined over the past few decades, contributing to rising isolation, mistrust, and polarization. Weaker social ties are leading to greater depression, anxiety, addiction, suicide, and alienation. Moreover, during the past 50 years, the number of high-poverty...

In this study, we find that Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is generally associated in expansion states with a shift of program financial resources away from children toward nonaged nondisabled adults. We examine Medicaid expenditures per capita for beneficiary categories...