Low-income households in the United States are increasingly relying on government assistance rather than employment wages, a shift that raises important questions about the nation’s welfare system.
Americans have heard plenty about how, effective November 1, the federal government shutdown suspended regular food stamp payments to 42 million individuals. Food stamps are important welfare benefits ...
Shining a spotlight on open border entitlements, Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner put a number on the annual drain from illegal aliens in […] ...
This year marks the 25th anniversary of a federal program that provides direct cash assistance to the poor — the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. An investigation by ProPublica ...
A few months ago, Christie Gardner's apartment was wrecked by a fire. Now she's living with the damage left by the fire, smoke, water, and the firemen who helped save her apartment. "It's a total ...
PIKSEL / Getty Images/iStockphoto This is going to be a column about the Supplemental Security Income, or SSI. In other words, it will NOT be a column about Social Security. Supplemental Security ...
The Biden administration is blocking states from moving people from welfare to work. The federal government has banned state work requirements for food-stamp recipients since March 2020, and the Biden ...
Okay, well, new budget numbers just released today show that the brief post-COVID era of fiscal restraint has abruptly come to an end. In November alone, the federal deficit came in at $249 billion — ...
Trump’s War Notice: The Issue of Equating Narcotics Trafficking with Terrorism The Lancet: ‘Far Right’ a Threat to Public Health Jay Jones’s Text Messages Reveal a Disqualifying Worldview A Fourth U.S ...
The Trump administration has launched an investigation into a Los Angeles County welfare program that pays immigrants up to $18,000 per year over allegations it is “providing federal benefits to ...