One more thing: While working on this, I read Bob Greenstein's masterful, sweeping history for the Hamilton Project of anti-poverty programs evolution since the 1970s. Absolute must-read, with important forward guidance as well.
www.hamiltonproject.org/wp-content/u...

...documenting what the program actually does for people, families, state budgets, and more. Today, we posted a longer version. To us, the Cogan oped is a revealing take on how, if you ignore evidence, you can justify these proposed cuts.
econjared.substack.com/p/the-conser...

Add to that the steep cuts in Medicaid, SNAP, etc. coming in the reconciliation bill and you have a prescription for triggering the biggest increases in poverty, hardship, and human suffering in the US - and the biggest losses of health coverage - we've seen in our lifetimes

Massive cutbacks in rental assistance for low-income families, elimination of aid with high heating/cooling bills, elimination of programs to spur development of affordable housing and - despite claims of wanting people to work - elimination of Job Corps & big cuts in education.