Poverty

Seema Verma said she believed there should be a mechanism for people in poverty can pay for coverage, but suggested it occur through the private market. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

CMS chief hints at changes to Medicaid

Kimberly Leonard · May 30, 2017 3:01 pm

A new Department of Agriculture requirement mandates states create a policy to handle meal debt of students by July 1 so that it can go into effect for the 2017-2018 academic year.

New Mexico tries to make student lunch debt a thing of the past

Anna Giaritelli · April 24, 2017 4:01 am

De-industrialization is color-blind; it doesn't matter if your town is all white, or predominately black like Ford Heights. (Salena Zito/Washington Examiner)

A fragile hope in Ford Heights

Salena Zito · April 16, 2017 6:00 am

Most of Airbnb's thousands of hosts utilize the platform in order to make extra income. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

Restricting Airbnb won’t solve Washington DC’s affordable housing problem

Kyle Burgess · April 4, 2017 11:00 pm

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is pursuing that goal with a package of reforms to public assistance in the state budget, changes meant to move people from government programs to work. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)

Scott Walker: Welfare reformer?

Joseph Lawler · March 20, 2017 4:01 am

Many of the suggested cuts are short-sighted and could result in weakening the most vulnerable Americans. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

Will Trump’s budget hurt the exact people who voted for him?

Capri Cafaro · March 17, 2017 2:41 pm

The solution to famine, strange as it sounds, is democracy. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Famines are caused by awful governments — so stop giving those awful governments money

Dan Hannan · March 6, 2017 5:04 am

Since becoming governor, Walker has been a regular drug test crusader. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Beltway Confidential

Walker says Trump will help Wisconsin drug test for welfare recipients

Philip Wegmann · February 23, 2017 6:20 pm

An Oxfam study gives undue weight to debt in its consideration of wealth. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Beltway Confidential

Fake Math! World’s 8 richest don’t have more wealth than bottom half

Philip Wegmann · January 17, 2017 4:39 pm

Five questions Ben Carson can expect to face in his HUD hearing

Five questions Ben Carson can expect to face in his HUD hearing

Joseph Lawler · January 12, 2017 5:01 am

The best way to respond to Russian hacking is by exposing the vast wealth of Putin and his Kremlin mafia. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin Press Service, Sputnik, via AP)

Embarrass Putin for hacking Democrats

Washington Examiner Staff · January 9, 2017 5:01 am

It's a simple idea: help the working poor take home more money by deducting less from them. (AP Photo)

Cut taxes for the 47 percent

Washington Examiner · December 27, 2016 5:01 am