As part of its full-court press to require low-income people who receive nutritional, health or housing support to work, the Trump administration's Council of Economic Advisers has released a new study touting the benefits of such requirements.
Unfortunately, the CEA's study founders on logical inconsistencies, misuse of data and strong assertions that, were this analysis to guide policy, would lead to more, not less poverty and material insecurity for the most economically vulnerable Americans. In fact, when you consider, in tandem with this new report, the Trump administration's terribly regressive tax cut, you cannot escape the conclusion that for these analysts, giving money to the rich is smart policy, but providing nutrition, health care and housing to the poor is reckless.