It isn’t often that a shift in federal tax policy has an immediate, positive and widespread impact on America’s struggling working families. And it’s perhaps even more rare in today’s fractious political environment that both parties can get together to make that happen. Yet it ...
Who needs tested on the Constitution? As a former social studies teacher in the Monongalia County School system, I was amused upon reading in The Dominion Post that the Legislature has proposed HB 4186, which would require all high school seniors to pass a test on the Constitution of the ...
by Karl W. Smith Congressional leaders are reported to be close to a deal that would restore President Joe Biden’s 2021 expansion of the child tax credit in exchange for bringing back a pair of deductions for business investment. Although such an agreement would be expected to add at ...
by Christopher Howard Despite the enormous toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, child poverty in the United States declined. According to the government’s supplemental poverty measure, which is more accurate than the official measure, child poverty rates dropped almost by half from 2020 to ...
by Kathryn Anne Edwards The latest deal to avert a U.S. government default, with its new work requirements for welfare programs, illustrates a fundamental flaw in America’s social safety net: It’s far too focused on identifying the worthy, to the detriment of the ...
by Joyce Kendrick One thing I was grateful for during the pandemic was masks — and not just for safety reasons. I’m on Medicare for disability, which unfortunately doesn’t cover dental care. At 60 years old, I’ve lost many of my teeth. It was nice hiding behind ...