U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg

Judge’s Ruling Slows Plans For Medicaid Work Requirement

The Trump administration’s drive to wean poor people from government benefits by making them work has been slowed down by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg framed a fundamental question: Are poverty programs meant to show tough love or to help the needy? Boasberg last week halted Kentucky’s first-in-the-nation experiment with Medicaid work requirements, ruling that the…