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 ...

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 ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Democrats are proposing the largest increase in means-tested welfare in U.S. history by far. The latest Democrat tax and spend reconciliation bill (also known as the Build Back Better bill), would ...

Congress reopens the debate over how to restructure the nation's welfare system. The overhaul of the welfare system was a major change in U.S. social policy. Five years later, the debate is back.

(The Center Square) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is taking new applications to conduct pilot programs in five different states focused on reducing federal assistance. The ...

When the Trump administration targeted billions of dollars in federal welfare funds recently over fraud concerns, it singled out five Democratic-run states. An examination by The Wall Street Journal ...

Cutting off access to welfare benefits for young adults with disabilities greatly increases the chances they will engage in criminal activity, according to a new Quarterly Journal of Economics study, ...