Welfare

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Bush proposes moving welfare, food stamps to states

January 8, 2016 8:59 pm

According to the Food Research Action Center, SNAP participation averaged 45.5 million people in September 2015, a decrease of almost 1.1 million compared with September 2014. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Up to 1 million may lose food stamp benefits in 2016

Kelly Cohen -

January 6, 2016 10:08 pm

Outspoken conservative Paul LePage ran on a promise to reform welfare in 2010 and 2014, targeting abuse of and dependency on government programs. (AP photo)

Economy

How one state is solving the food stamp problem

Joseph Lawler -

December 14, 2015 5:01 am

Healthcare

Ryan to push votes on Obamacare, taxes in 2016

Susan Ferrechio -

December 3, 2015 7:19 pm

Once questions surrounding the earned income tax credit are resolved, the major question for Republicans will be tightening work requirements for welfare programs, partly by rolling back some of the changes President Obama has made. (AP Photo)

Economy

Earned income tax credits on GOP’s welfare agenda

Joseph Lawler -

November 30, 2015 5:01 am

Sponsors of the bill say that one out of every three families

Politics

Dems propose federal diaper subsidies

Pete Kasperowicz -

November 19, 2015 2:26 pm

Over $1 trillion of taxpayer money gets spent on welfare, yet the poverty rate is where it was 50 years ago. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Beltway Confidential

America’s welfare system is a mess, in one chart

Jason Russell -

November 6, 2015 4:46 pm

Economists Bruce Meyer and Nikolas Mittag wroteÂ in a working paper published Monday that theÂ census survey used to calculate poverty and the poverty rate is affected by widespread underreporting of use of government anti-poverty programs. (AP Photo)

Economy

Study: Census severely overstates U.S. poverty

Joseph Lawler -

October 26, 2015 4:44 pm

People cheer during a rally to mark the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, on Capitol Hill, on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, in Washington D.C. Waving flags, carrying signs and listening to speeches and songs, the crowd gathered at the U.S. Capitol and spread down the Mall. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Op-Eds

The Million Man March failed miserably

Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. -

October 16, 2015 4:02 am

Magazine

Discouraging Marriage

douglas-besharov, Neil Gilbert -

September 21, 2015 4:00 am

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Tag: Welfare

Bush proposes moving welfare, food stamps to states

Up to 1 million may lose food stamp benefits in 2016

How one state is solving the food stamp problem

Ryan to push votes on Obamacare, taxes in 2016

Earned income tax credits on GOP’s welfare agenda

Dems propose federal diaper subsidies

America’s welfare system is a mess, in one chart

Study: Census severely overstates U.S. poverty

The Million Man March failed miserably

Discouraging Marriage

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