Jonathan Ingram
The Archive
Pull the plug: Republicans' food-stamp fail could add $70B to taxpayers' burden
House Republicans have failed Negotiating 101, and taxpayers will suffer.
Hochul wants to create a middle-class Medicaid entitlement New York can't afford
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a plan last month to cut $1.2 billion in Medicaid funding, which she’ll finalize Thursday.
Hospitals move to hike prices by 15% and Team Biden does nothing to stop it
The Trump admin issued a hospital price-transparency rule to help families fight price hikes and find high-value care, yet the Biden team isn’t enforcing it.
It’s not just spending — Biden’s record regulations are driving inflation too
The role of regulations in the inflation crisis is largely overlooked but shouldn’t be. When Washington wraps the economy in red tape, businesses must spend massive sums on compliance.
States should refuse the feds’ ‘free money’ that’s creating huge, costly Medicaid rolls
Last year, virtually every Republican governor opted out of the Biden administration’s unemployment bonus, which paid millions of people more than they made by working.
Welfare is delaying workers’ return — and Build Back Better would make it worse
A new study shows that amid the pandemic, available welfare benefits have become so generous that it makes financial sense for many of the unemployed to stay home rather than...