THE SOCIAL SAFETY NET. (cover story)

CENTERS for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.); HEALTH insurance; MEDICAID; PUBLIC housing; PUBLIC support

The article offers information on the health coverage provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that announced it support states that wants to add work requirements to Medicaid. Topics include reports that it had targeted food stamps, public housing, health care, and immigrant services with changes that make benefits harder to access and examines that several attacks ignore the broad public support of government programs, and reams of social science research.