President Trump quietly signed an executive order Tuesday, directing federal agencies to strengthen the work requirements for various welfare programs. The move could eventually affect recipients of ...

Trump administration policies are responsible for a faster growing, more robust economy, which is incentivizing millions of Americans to get off the sidelines and back into the job market. But to ...

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). In ...

Opinion Why behavioral requirements are vital to welfare programs By Robert Cherry June 14, 2023 06:00 AM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Opinion Why behavioral requirements are vital to welfare ...

A key ingredient of any welfare program is work. Without work requirements in place for nondisabled, nonelderly enrollees, any welfare program naturally operates as a welfare trap. Staying in such ...

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.

Biden recently approved a 25 percent increase in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, otherwise known as food stamps, following a reassessment of the thrifty food plan, which is ...

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 ...

A column in the Wall Street Journal last week by House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) and former Senator Phil Gramm (R-Texas), titled “Welfare is What’s Eating the Budget,” argued ...

While marriage and household formation is generally perceived as having a positive effect on the U.S. economy, marriage may put some middle-class couples at an economic disadvantage. A recent report ...