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.
Homelessness
Homelessness Services Audits
In 2013, the Obama Administration offered “Housing First” as the means to end homelessness in 10 years. Over a decade later, homelessness is more prevalent than ever, and taxpayers have been financing ever-increasing funding to programs that are failing to achieve their stated goal of ending homelessness. Key points: The “Housing First” approach was proposed...
August 31, 2026