- Roughly half of states are waiving current food stamp work requirements. Of 800 counties nationwide where work is waived, only 20 have unemployment rates above the 10% threshold prescribed by the waiver process.
- Michael Tanner: work requirements can be cumbersome and costly to enforce; there is also limited evidence that they increase employment or save much money.
- Federal housing subsides are twice as large as cash welfare; and they come with no time limits and no work requirements.
- Mile long trains can keep EMTs away from patients who need help.
Category: Monday Links
Monday Links
- Are therapists becoming social justice warriors?
- Some NY lawmakers want to make organ transplants available to illegal immigrants, while citizens stay on waiting lists. (NYT)
- Illinois offers free health care to some illegal immigrants. Spending already balloons to $1.1 billion – five times the initial projection.
- Mass bill: prisoners would get reduced sentences for donating their organs or bone marrow to other patients.
Monday Links
David Henderson: If you read or watch nothing else about Covid-19 today or this weekend, make sure you watch Margery Smelkinson’s 4-minute testimony. Charlie Hooper on Ivermectin. How student loans are like health insurance: graduate students will account for 48 percent of new federal student loans … graduates of master’s degree programs owe over $55,000 and graduates of professional programs owe…
Monday Links
- Data show that sizable portions of SNAP (food stamp) dollars purchase non-nutritious foods, such as sugary beverages and ultra-processed foods, which can lead to poor health.
- The solution to anorexia: No one seems to know.
- Looking at three years’ worth of data, researchers found nurse-led care increases lengths of stay by 11%; raises 30-day preventable hospitalizations by 20%; and increases the cost of emergency department care by about $66 per patient and $74 million annually.
- Doctors against giving nurses more authority to practice medicine.