At the same time, the strategy of targeting welfare could help the GOP steer clear of proposing cuts to the popular old-age entitlement programs Social Security and Medicare. In other words, it’s an ...

Government welfare and benefit programs are among the favorite targets of capitalists, right-wing extremists, and authoritarians. During election season, promises to reduce the government’s spending ...

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 ...

This commentary reviews current means-tested federal benefit programs designed to assist low-income individuals and families. The large number of those programs is amplified by similar state and local ...

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 ...

Workshop participants identified numerous research issues, methodologies, and data needs that the ideal food assistance program evaluation effort should consider. Designing such an effort, however, ...

The Department of Health and Human Services plans to end research into how to improve child welfare programs like Head Start, according to an email mistakenly sent by an HHS employee to grant ...

The top priority for the Trump administration in 2018 is welfare reform. And if you seem to recall hearing about welfare reform in the past, you're right. Welfare reform goes back at least to the ...