Social Programs
Vox's home for examining the state of social security, Medicaid, Medicare, welfare, food stamps, and more.
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What doulas, midwives, and policymakers are doing to end the maternal mortality crisis.
A second Trump presidency is likely to bring more austerity than the first one did.
It was once normal for economists to imagine a world with less work. What happened?
The end of the “vibecession” doesn’t mean we should stop questioning the economy.
The invasive challenge faced by single parents seeking government assistance.
Democrats say the reason is over unrelated pending bills.
US public policy is a disaster on guns — and so much more.
The coming battle to expand Supplemental Security Income, explained.
The problem with our social safety net is clear. The solution is, too.
We must bail out the industry that allows millions of parents to work.
Obama praised young people of color for creating urgency around systemic racism and police brutality.
The multimillionaire Facebook co-founder is the latest moneyed titan to turn philanthropist, and has even called for Facebook’s dismantling. Can he really make a difference?
Everyone benefits from welfare. Here’s why most people don’t know that.
Experts think Trump’s rhetoric is driving immigrant families away from SNAP — and new data backs them up.
Eric Weinstein on the crisis of late capitalism.
Alaska joins New Hampshire and Maryland as the only states to bar the decades-old practice.
“These systems make our values visible to us in a way that calls us to a moral reckoning.”
The poor taking care of the poor are driving the new economy.
"Republicans are making a mistake.” — columnist Philip Klein
She also helped run the Eric Trump Foundation, now facing a state probe.
“Most people want to take control of their lives." —Yascha Mounk
In San Francisco, a family of four that earns $100,000 is “low-income.”
This program brought down the teen pregnancy and abortion rates all across the state of Colorado. Now it’s under attack.
A new plan would totally overhaul the program’s finances.
And this is on top of $880 billion in cuts.
It’s about companionship for people who really need it.
A look at the NEA’s approach to funding art tells a very different story.
At last, a chance to take people’s health insurance away.
The program is a lot more than just a card we give people.
A new CBO support on the GOP plan projects 14 million people would lose Medicaid by 2026.
Millions of poor Americans could lose health insurance.
Medicaid expansion is the focus of one of the fiercest Obamacare fights. Here's what the science says.
Washington GOP wants to repeal Obamacare. Statehouse Republicans want to expand it.
Disparities in health care are now more about income inequality than racial inequality.
What happens when they find out?
Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN) likes Medicaid block grants. But the politics, he says, are getting messy.
Here’s another promise Trump might break.
Trump’s HHS pick would reduce the program’s budget by $1 trillion over the next decade.
“It would be a fundamental change in how Medicare works.”
“Make our day.”