California may try to claw back Medi-Cal care by using its minimum wage rules

California may try to claw back Medi-Cal care by using its minimum wage rules

This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is published here with permission. There isn’t a ton of research into the effectiveness of making people prove they have jobs in order to access social services. But what evidence there is points in one direction: placing work requirements on programs like Medicaid does almost nothing to increase employment or hours worked, while actively hurting people in need. With roughly 15 million Californians…