Isabel Sawhill is senior fellow in economic studies at Brookings, where she works with the Center on Children and Families and the Future of the Middle Class Initiative. She served as co-director of the AEI-Brookings Working Group on Paid Family Leave.

Read a July 11, 2013, article from the New York Post about recent efforts by local governments to reform welfare.

Read a June 18, 2013, article from the Washington Post about the long-term impact of welfare reform.

Read a June 5, 2013, commentary from The Washington Post about state welfare reform designed to require drug tests for welfare recipients.

Read a Sept. 19, 2012, article posted by the Heritage Foundation summarizing Barack Obama’s work on welfare reform.

More than 100 former NFL players filed a mass-tort lawsuit in federal court in March claiming that the NFL was aware of the risks of repetitive traumatic brain injury but did nothing about it. Read a March 27, 2012, article from the Washington Times about the suit.

Malcolm Potts is an obstetrician and reproductive scientist and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He has studied oral contraceptives since the 1960s and says the Catholic Church needs to recognize the health benefits – aside from contraception – of the birth control pill.

Thomas A. Cavanaugh is a philosophy professor at the University of San Francisco and one of nearly 100 scholars nationwide who signed a letter denouncing Obama’s contraception coverage mandate.

Gerald R. McDermott is the Anglican chair of divinity history and doctrine at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Ala. He is one of nearly 100 scholars nationwide who signed a letter denouncing Obama’s contraception coverage mandate.