Work requirements are a policy failure: Why are they still an option?

Bringing people into the workforce and helping them stay there should be a national priority. So should be ensuring that everyone has their basic needs met. 

We’ve reached an inflection point in our economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The unemployment rate currently stands at 3.4 percent — one of the lowest on record and far below the nearly 15 percent rate at the outset of the pandemic. But the labor force participation rate (the s...

Work requirements are a policy failure: Why are they still an option?

Bringing people into the workforce and helping them stay there should be a national priority. So should be ensuring that everyone has their basic needs met. 

We’ve reached an inflection point in our economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The unemployment rate currently stands at 3.4 percent — one of the lowest on record and far below the nearly 15 percent rate at the outset of the pandemic. But the labor force participation rate (the s...