Social Policy
Vox’s coverage of social policy, from food stamps to paternity leave to gun control.
The last time a state tried this, the Obama administration immediately shut them down.
The irony of everyone turning on Jon Gruber.
Some conservatives have suggested a revenue-neutral carbon tax. But that won’t necessarily break the partisan deadlock.
How our age, gender, race, and other demographic factors predict which policies we support.
Berkeley voters approved the country’s most aggressive approve soda-tax Tuesday, giving a policy long-supported by public health experts its first shot at a real-life experiment.
Hope and despair in Yuma, Arizona
The medical device tax is part of Obamacare and has been a top repeal target since pretty much the day it became law.
It’s a totally great idea, but voters seem to hate it.
When parties work well, they empower voters. But a federal system needs federal parties.
The uninsured rate for residents of poor counties fell by 9 percentage points, from 26.4 percent in 2013 to 17.5 percent now.
Scott Walker is ahead by less than one point.
The political system is systematically skewed by the class bias in voting behavior.
Are you saving enough? What does “401(k)” even mean? We have answers.
The state is finally out of full-blown crisis mode. But it’ll be back there before too long.
Relying on the wealthiest citizens and corporations to fund the public sector does not create the revenue necessary for large-scale initiatives to reduce inequality.
It will raise revenue, though, which is nice.
Conservatives would like to debunk last week’s viral inequality chart, but it’s just an unusually dramatic presentation of reality.
40 out of 40 economists surveyed in a University of Chicago poll said that allowing services like Uber and Lyft raises consumer welfare.
There are a few reasons to think a Yahoo/AOL merger would make sense, but a big one is that it could help Yahoo avoid billions in taxes.
The worst idea in business tax policy has a powerful friend, and I hear his wife may be running for president.
The White House calls them “corporate deserters.” More and more companies are relabeling themselves as foreign to get out of paying US corporate income taxes. Why? How? And what is being proposed to stop them?
It all changed when the federal government began to increase its powers, starting in DC.
It’s more about building a secure floor for everyone than fighting the glass ceiling.
Six of the most interesting papers from APSA, the annual gathering of political scientists
Europe, as both a place and a concept, has changed dramatically in its centuries of history.
It’s much more complicated than a lack of information