Federal officials are targeting Democratic-led states over alleged safety-net fraud. Critics worry a drumbeat of unfounded ...

Safeguarding the social safety net is essential for keeping it.

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The United States can save money on welfare and even increase its benefits by making simple changes to welfare programs. Are you ahead, or behind on retirement? SmartAsset’s free tool can match you ...

States are now in the process of preparing to implement parts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which achieved some of the most significant pro-work reforms to America’s social welfare system in ...

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 ...

Stacey Barker is a Professor, Department Chair and Program Director for the BSW program at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, MA. Her research interests center around the integration of spirituality ...

The March 9 LNP | LancasterOnline letter “Possible cuts to Medicaid would conflict with what’s preached in the Gospels” struck my sense of social justice. The letter writer cited the Book of Matthew, ...