Congress should empower states to fix benefit cliffs

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A U.S. Senate committee recently discussed a decades-old federal policy trap that punishes poor families for getting a raise: social safety net-benefit cliffs. These cliffs hamper upward mobility and harm small businesses dealing with workforce challenges. To fix this, Congress should take the next step towards innovative reform and enlist states as part of the…

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