…are expending significant efforts currently to legitimize the use of so-called “fair value accounting” for establishing budgetary costs of the federal student loan program. These efforts largely rely upon recent…

…bench overall or at least hold a majority on the Supreme Court. Madison Avenue-ishly marketed as reverse-racial-discrimination programs, race-based affirmative action programs were (and remain) on the Reagan-era-conservatives’ Legal Movement…

…This matches the rest of ACA, a program in which almost every segment is incredibly complicated, even while good intentioned. Don’t blame the techies. This is a program design problem….

Dean Baker was polite in responding to another story from the Washington Post in the campaign to discredit the program: That’s what the headline of the front page Washington Post…

…to call the Good Ol’ USE established a program a hundred years back designed to deliver a minimum income to retired citizens of USE which they called Total Security or…

…Mobility Corporation (EMC) [skip] Participation in subsidized employment programs led to significant increases in employment and earnings. Participants in four of the five programs covered by the study were much…

…in the original agreement (criterion #4). By 2011, it was evident that the program with Greece was not viable. Talks began on a new program and a restructuring of the…

…point, in light of EMichael’s comment, about federalism as it relates to Medicaid and, for that matter, any other federal social-safety-network program. Federalism has been a disaster for Obamacare, and…

…that matter, to any other federal social-safety-network program. I said in my post yesterday what I think is obvious: that federalism has been a disaster for Obamacare. But I want…

…From 1994 to 1999, Florida randomly selected a group of welfare recipients into either the Family Transition Program (FTP), … or the then-standard Aid for Families with Dependent Children welfare…