Rachel Sheffield

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Rachel Sheffield is research fellow in welfare and family policy in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research.

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    The Real Reason America’s Birth Rate Keeps Falling

    Rachel Sheffield
    Birth rates in the U.S. continue to fall, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. U.S. birth rates have been steadily declining for more than a decade now, and the total fertility rate (the number of births a woman is projected to have over her lifetime) has continued to hit…
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    Reversing Biden’s Child Care Fraud Loopholes
    Rachel Sheffield
    • Opinion

    Mamdani’s Homelessness Crisis: Urgent Course Correction Needed
    Rachel Sheffield
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    Minnesota Fraud Exposes the Baked-In Flaws of Welfare
    Rachel Sheffield
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    New Survey Shows Increased Concerns About the Cost of Raising Children
    Rachel Sheffield
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    Food Stamp Reforms in One Big Beautiful Bill Act Promote Upward Mobility
    Rachel Sheffield
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    Fertility Rates Inch Up, but Marriage and Family Formation Trends Worry Experts
    Rachel Sheffield
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    How the Trump Administration Can Support Healthy Marriage
    Rachel Sheffield
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    Biden-Harris Admin Uses Loopholes to Expand Welfare Benefits, Again
    Rachel Sheffield
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    Better Homelessness Policies Needed to Restore Order on Streets—and in Individuals’ Lives
    Rachel Sheffield
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    Shift in Marital Trends Is Reflected in Valentine’s Day Celebrations
    Rachel Sheffield
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    With Bipartisan Measure, Congress Could Expand Successful ‘One Door’ Policy on Welfare, Workforce
    Rachel Greszler
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    The Growing Ignorance of the Benefits of Marriage—and Why It’s Dangerous
    Rachel Sheffield
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    25 Years of Healthy Marriage in Utah: State Commission Strengthens Institution
    Rachel Sheffield
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    With Food Stamps Work Requirement, GOP Budget Takes Important Step
    Rachel Sheffield
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    It May Not Be a SNAP, but Congress Should Promote Work for Food Stamps
    Rachel Sheffield
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