Tag: COVID

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The Affordable Care Act gives a carrot to states that expand Medicaid from a health insurance program mainly for poor people to one that also includes low-income workers. Under the 2010 law, the federal government initially paid the full cost of adding more people to the Medicaid rolls, and a large majority of states hav…

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The brief’s key findings are: This study provides a pre-COVID baseline on Social Security claiming. The percentage of all initial claimants who are age 62 shows a steady decline over the past two decades, interrupted only briefly by the Great Recession. However, a better metric to capture claiming behavior over time – when the population…