Dozens of Portland police officers flooded the area near Southeast Division Street and Southeast 170th Avenue Sunday night ...

The Department of Energy targeted low-income households that qualify for federal weatherization assistance as part of former ...

Employees at fashion house Gucci in Italy are threatening strike action, accusing the Kering-owned brand of denying them a ...

This controversial new program requires adults who receive cash assistance from San Francisco and struggle with addiction to ...

In part, this is due to the fact that the U.S. welfare system actively penalizes many low-income parents who do marry. The anti-marriage incentives built into the welfare state are indefensible.

Welfare didn't exist in America before the Great Depression and Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. It officially came into being as a rule under the Social Security Act in 1935, offering aid to ...

Welfare fraud is actually rare, no matter what the myths and stereotypes say Stigma has power."But if you ask about the things that welfare performs, you get support for it," says Noam Chomsky ...

The government provides at least one means-tested, welfare-type program to roughly one out of every five Americans (unless you count Social Security, in which case the number goes up considerably ...

The original welfare program cost around $30 billion in today’s dollars, he said, while the government now spends twice as much on that on the Earned Income Tax Credit, expanded in the 1990s to ...

Judged by the size of the welfare rolls, Reagan’s campaign against welfare was at least as futile. By 1988, there were 10.9 million recipients on AFDC, about the same number as when he took office .