The Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research has released a new policy brief that describes the characteristics of Medicaid recipients, including work status, in Missouri and the U.S – important context for the current policy debate about potential work requirements for Medicaid recipients. The policy brief highlights that roughly two-thirds of Missouri’s Medicaid population who are of working age are already employed. A significant percentage of working-age Medicaid recipients who are not employed report a work disability or illness, caregiving for a child under age 6, or that they are in school or retired.