Tag: Medicaid
To improve low-income households’ economic well-being, the social safety net provides both cash assistance and additional resources to support a better lifestyle – safer housing, more education or training, or healthy but expensive fresh fruits, vegetables, and meats. The health and employment benefits of three programs passed in the 1960s and 1970s – food stamps,…
While the cost of elder care in the United States, whether paid for by Medicare, Medicaid or out-of-pocket, is substantial, most care is provided by family members for no compensation. Yet the burden on those family members can also be huge in terms of forgoing paid employment or work opportunities, time with family and friends,…
