1. Supplemental Security and Temporary Assistance: How "This American Life" Got the Story Wrong
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, social insurance, disability)

In both her story on disability insurance and a Wonkblog interview, reporter Chana Joffe-Walt implies that lots of people are receiving Supplemental Security who don’t deserve the help, and that large ...

2. Sorry Ira: There are Factual Errors in Your Story on Disability Insurance
(Matching tags: children, social insurance, disabilities)

As my colleague Dean Baker has noted, a controversial This American Life piece on disability insurance “got some of the basics wrong” and “failed to recognize the actual importance of the economic ...

3. Real Poverty Really Did Rise During Recent Recession
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, social insurance, uemployment)

Casey Mulligan digs himself in deeper with a follow-up post on his argument that: 1) the expansion of social insurance programs in response to the recession was a big problem because it "erased" unemployed ...

4. NewtAid at 16: The Failure of TANF and Conservative Social Policy
(Matching tags: poverty, children, working class, social insurance)

Sixteen years ago on Wednesday, President Bill Clinton surrendered to House Speaker Newt Gingrich and signed NewtAid, legislation that replaced the Social Security Act's Aid to Families with Dependent ...

5. Stuff Casey Mulligan Doesn't Like: Social Insurance
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, inequality, unemployment, social insurance)

In a recent report, Arloc Sherman of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities concluded that the current income poverty rate would be much higher if not for social insurance, including temporary expansions ...