Mary Katherine Stout, director of the Center for Health Care Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, presented testimony before the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services regarding Medicaid reform, September 19, 2006.
The simple reform Congress can make to move millions from welfare to work
Congress has a chance to help millions of Americans move from welfare to work while fixing one of the country’s most broken federal programs. Lawmakers are preparing to reauthorize the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, which controls the vast and failed federal workforce-development system. Instead of doubling down on the longstanding approach of wasting money...