Allyson Baughman

Guest Author

Allyson Baughman, MPH is a doctoral candidate in Public Policy and Public Affairs at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her interests include the intersection of public policy and health, social, economic, and political determinants of health, data visualization, and framing the public discourse on social problems.

Allyson's Work:

02.12.2018 Hands showing dirt from manual labor

Health Equity
Policy

A History of Work Requirements

Nine states have pending waiver requests that would require work as a condition for receiving Medicaid benefits. Work requirements are not a new policy idea. Politicians, especially conservatives, have been proposing the addition of work requirements to every existing type of public benefit program for decades.

Guest Author Allyson Baughman