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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump said Monday his administration will start to consider reforming the welfare system in the United States, saying that some people are “taking advantage of the system.” The ...

Welfare reform, initiated by Republican governors at the state level in the 1990s and later passed by a Republican Congress and signed by a reluctant President Bill Clinton in 1996, was one of the ...

LAST month, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing federal agencies to find ways to add new work requirements to welfare programmes and strengthen those that exist. He said that a ...

President Trump’s new executive order on welfare reform has laid the groundwork to get more Americans back to work while protecting and strengthening the safety net for the truly needy. Federal ...

New “One Door” system merges welfare and workforce programs SNAP and TANF oversight shifts to streamline assistance and job access Fraud crackdown saves $70M from Medicaid rolls in 2024 Unemployment ...

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