Former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., apparently was in no mood to mince words that day in 1996 when he described the welfare-reform bill that had just been enacted by a Republican Congress and ...

AS THE ROSTER of Democratic candidates for the 2020 presidential elections grows, plans for welfare reform proliferate alongside it. Senator Kamala Harris of California, for example, has proposed a ...

Michigan was exemplary in its reform efforts. While welfare rolls nationally decreased by around 50 percent on average, the decline in the Wolverine state was a remarkable 62 percent. Michigan's ...

Welfare reform may be the last great bipartisan success story. It was enacted in 1996 by a Republican Congress led by Newt Gingrich and by Democratic President Bill Clinton in response to decades of ...

A lot has changed since the 1996 law to “end welfare as we know it.” In this reprise, we’ll explore the origins of the welfare-to-work movement. It’s been 25 years since our country upended its ...

Whether a Millennial or Generation Xer, anyone under 40 may find it hard to believe that politicians from opposing parties can agree on anything. The idea that a Democratic President and Republican ...

The 1996 welfare reform legislation—the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reform Act (PRWORA)—dramatically eliminated a central component of the New Deal social policy framework. By ...

Former NFL star Brett Favre is at the center of a public corruption scandal in Mississippi in which state lawmakers have been accused of misappropriating as much as $94 million in federal welfare ...

National Chief affirms support for Caring Society and NCCC plan to reform the First Nations Child and Family Services program ...

Progress on a child welfare agreement to reform the system stalled last year when First Nations twice rejected a ...

Ottawa offers a $35.5-billion plan for child-welfare reform, a year after the AFN rejected the previous federal offer of a ...

In a human sense, it was impossible to watch Rachel Reeves fighting back the tears as she sat, as usual, next to her friend and ally Sir Keir Starmer during Prime Minister’s Questions, and not to feel ...