Congress established the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in 1997. Proponents argued that CHIP would deliver health insurance coverage to half the nation’s 10 million uninsured children by 2000. Through Federal FY 2005, however, the program had never enrolled even 4 million children at any given time.
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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...
January 2, 2024