Minnesota welfare fraud investigation expands beyond $1 billion scandal to expose systemic abuse of federal loan programs, ...

Federal policy creates little incentive for states to stop fraud. Fixing that should be the priority, not demonizing Somali ...

State leaders, with the help of federal lawmakers, can fix the perverse disincentives in the social welfare system that trap ...

One of the things about America’s welfare-state way of life that has long fascinated me is how welfare-state advocates are convinced that this way of life ...

Although America’s social welfare system may be lacking in relative size, it more than makes up for it with its complexities, according to Christopher D. Howard, William & Mary’s Pamela C. Harriman ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom looks on during a press conference at the Unity Council on May 10, 2021, in Oakland, Calif. (Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images) For a split second this week, as ...

In the two decades since welfare reform, the number of poor families receiving cash welfare has plummeted by more than half. In 2014, just 23 out of every 100 poor families received cash welfare.

When Congress reformed the nation's welfare program 20 years ago, it set a new condition for eligibility: Recipients must have a job or be searching for one. But the 1996 reforms also gave states ...

In 11 wide-ranging chapters covering history, social policy and the economy, David Matthews grounds his thesis in the following. Anti-capitalist reforms ...