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Krit Chanwong and Adam N. Michel For decades, Republican welfare policy focused on tying benefits to work. The 1996 welfare reform made work central to cash assistance, and the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act extended similar rules to Medicaid and tightened them for food stamps. The premise was that…

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