The American Paradox: Deconstructing Poverty and Forging a Path to Shared Prosperity
Introduction: The Two Americas and the Two Measures The United States stands as a global beacon of immense wealth and...
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The Barren Field: How I Learned to See Federal Aid Not as a Maze, but as an Ecosystem in Need of Tending
Part 1: Introduction - The Heartbreak of a Broken Promise My Identity and My Mission For more than 15 years,...
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The Political Ecosystem: A Lobbyist’s Guide to Washington’s Drug Problem
Part I: The Fog of the Machine - A Flawed Blueprint Section 1.1: The Naive Analyst and the Marketplace of...
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The Fractured Landscape: How a Single Policy Choice Divided America and What It Means for Our Future
Introduction: The Two Americas I Didn't See in the Data For the first decade of my career as a public...
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A Comprehensive Analysis of Georgia’s Medicaid System: Eligibility, Programs, and Procedural Landscape
Introduction Medicaid is a cornerstone of the United States' health care safety net, a joint federal and state program designed...
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The Poverty We See and The Poverty We Don’t: Why America’s Official Numbers Are a Lie and How a Clearer Lens Can Show Us the Truth
Part I: My Failure and the Flawed Lens Introduction: The Day My Data Died Early in my career as a...
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Below the Line: Why the Official Poverty Numbers Don’t Tell the Truth About North Carolina
Part I: The Day the Numbers Failed Me For fifteen years, my world was built on the elegant certainty of...
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The Condition of Care: An In-Depth Analysis of Medicaid Work Requirements and Their Systemic Consequences
Executive Summary The American health care safety net is undergoing a fundamental re-engineering. With the passage of the "One Big...
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