Tag: policy reform
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The role of mandatory minimums
Mandatory minimum sentencing was sold as a tough-on-crime fix. Decades of data show it produced mass incarceration, racial disparities, and uncertain deterrent effect.
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Pharmacy benefit managers are the most corrupt link in healthcare
PBMs sit invisibly between drugmakers, insurers, and pharmacies. Their structure produces predictable harm to patients and pharmacies, and almost no public scrutiny.
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Child support enforcement criminalizes poverty
Child support enforcement in the US punishes inability to pay almost as harshly as refusal to pay. The result is a system that deepens the poverty it claims to address.