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In the Press: AI Against Fraud, Taxing Millionaires Falls Short of Deficits, and Medicare’s $85 Trillion Tab
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (334+ words) AI must be paired with stronger controls to fight waste, fraud, and abuse In The Center Square, Brett Rowland reports that 60 percent of registered voters back using artificial intelligence to detect fraud, waste, or abuse in programs such as Medicaid....
Welfare Digest | Welfare Reform's Success Holds Up 30 Years Later
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (703+ words) The Debt Dispatch Welfare Digest | Welfare Reform's Success Holds Up 30 Years Later Links & Benefits Breakdowns Here are this week’s reading links and benefits breakdowns: Welfare Reform's Success Holds Up 30 Years Later. The positive effects of the 1996 welfare reforms on work…...
Debt Digest | Borrowing to Fund Social Security is Dangerous
1+ week, 4+ day ago (887+ words) The Debt Dispatch Debt Digest | Borrowing to Fund Social Security is Dangerous Links & Fiscal Facts Here are this week’s reading links and fiscal facts: Borrowing to fund Social Security is dangerous. Jennifer Scholtes and Katherine Tully-McManus report in Politico that…...
Continuing Resolution Avoids a Shutdown by Preserving an Untenable Fiscal Status Quo
1+ week, 5+ day ago (217+ words) The House is expected to vote Tuesday on a continuing resolution (CR) that would fund the federal government through December 11. Speaker Mike Johnson stated the priority is to “make sure this government gets funded and we don’t have another Democratic…...
Medicare Is on Track to Add $85 Trillion to the National Debt by 2056
1+ week, 6+ day ago (270+ words) From 2026 through 2035, the Trustees now project an additional $731 billion in Part D spending compared with last year’s estimate, a 34 percent increase. Figure 1 shows the revision year by year. The Debt Contribution: The Next 10 to 30 Years The Financial Report of the…...
In the Press: The $40 Trillion Bill for Young Americans, Falling SNAP enrollment, and Lack of Transparency in Rural Health
2+ week, 1+ day ago (473+ words) Free the Facts asked ten experts across the ideological spectrum what the $40 trillion national debt means for the next generation. Boccia’s contribution: In Yahoo News, Jasmine Andersson examines which states have shed the most SNAP recipients — enrollment is down more…...
In the Press: $40 Trillion Debt, Medicaid’s Financing Flaw, and Hidden Costs of “Universal” Health Care
2+ week, 5+ day ago (759+ words) In The Wall Street Journal, Boccia responds in a letter to the editor to Joseph Sternberg’s argument that Social Security reform is “a political rather than a technocratic issue.” Boccia argues for a BRAC-style commission: “Social Security reform is unavoidably…...
Don’t Mourn the Falling SNAP Rolls
2+ week, 6+ day ago (396+ words) This article first appeared in InsideSources on August 19, 2026. Read it here. When Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) last summer, more than 42 million, or one in eight, Americans were on the food stamp program. Since then, that…...
In the Press: SNAP Accountability, the Social Security Reform Debate, and DOGE’s Failed Savings
3+ week, 4+ day ago (438+ words) In The Unseen and the Unsaid, Jack Salmon argues that the Farm Bill pairs a $1.4 trillion price tag with expanded subsidies and delayed SNAP accountability. He cites Boccia on the risk of backsliding: As the Cato Institute’s Romina Boccia puts…...
Fixing Medicaid's Financing Structure to Reduce Waste, Fraud, and Overspending
3+ week, 5+ day ago (892+ words) Medicaid is one of the largest and fastest-growing items in the federal budget and is highly vulnerable to waste, fraud, and abuse. We took that problem to Capitol Hill, hosting a panel featuring Michael F. Cannon of the Cato Institute, Chris…...