Social Policy
Vox’s coverage of social policy, from food stamps to paternity leave to gun control.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s latest criticism of equal pay: it would “pit” women against men in a battle of the sexes.
For centuries, the rhetoric of states’ rights has been used to justify slavery, segregation, and other forms of discrimination. Now it’s wrapped up in the Confederate flag debate in a surprising way.
Sure, not all fiscal conservatives are jerks. But rich jerks are.
Is everything we think we know about health insurance wrong?
Gov. Bobby Jindal created a fee and immediately negated it with a tax credit, because the fee didn’t count as a tax hike and the credit counted as a cut, which on paper could help him counter another, real tax hike.
Assuming that your ideological opponents are jerks makes it hard to learn from them.
And you’ll never guess where it came from.
He does want to increase the retirement age, though.
Rich people are jerks and have tons of power to push their jerky policy preferences.
Billionaire real estate tycoon and TV personality Donald Trump has announced his presidential candidacy. Here’s where the mogul stands on the issues, from economics to the environment.
In 1994, Bush was “the Ted Cruz of gubernatorial candidates,” and he lost. Here’s how he changed his approach.
Hillary Clinton gets a lot of grief for not having an overarching vision for the country. That should stop now. Her speech on Saturday nailed the vision thing.
The speech was given on Roosevelt Island in New York.
A new paper suggests race, gender, and income level strongly affect political influence.
Two for the price of one: Hillary Clinton casts herself as an heir to the legacies of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Clinton’s silence on issues that split Democrats reinforces the worst narratives about her candidacy.
“You need a credible alternative. You can’t just return to the health system of 2009.”
He’s proposed eliminating so many federal agencies that he couldn’t remember them all.
Texas is a bad place to be poor, but conservative rule really has delivered the jobs and growth.
There are 15 states where center-based infant care costs a fifth of an average household’s income.
Martin O’Malley is a real progressive. But Baltimore is a problem for him.
Joe Stiglitz says the economy’s fundamentally broken, and big change is needed to fix it.
“This campaign is going to send a message to the billionaire class. And that is: you can’t have it all.”
There’s just no plausible purpose other than hurting the poor.
Oil, gas, and coal are artificially cheap because we don’t pay full price for all the damage they cause.
How to pay for it? “Scrap the cap.”
In 1965, moms spent 10 hours a week on child care, and dads spent 2.5 hours. Today it’s 14 and 7.
It’s better than the alternatives.
An innovative argument for getting rid of the Export-Import Bank.
The feds still want some of that green.
Deficit spending saved the American economy. So why do presidential candidates want the Constitution to ban it?
He’s going to try to do what John Edwards did in 2007. Good luck.
It’s like Social Security, but for family leave.
Capitalism is most popular where, a few decades ago, you would have least expected it.
Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton had opposite responses to Baltimore. That’s because they’re courting opposite constituencies.
He’s spent decades warning America that it’s drifting toward oligarchy. Could this be his moment?
It’s a calculated move — and a very small price to pay.
The party has changed so much on economic issues that the top three GOP contenders are all acceptable to the Kochs.
Only the very, very rich pay the estate tax. So why is so unpopular?
Cutting 11 percent of the check someone lives on and 11 percent of the check someone barely notices are not the same thing.