Minnesota welfare fraud investigation expands beyond $1 billion scandal to expose systemic abuse of federal loan programs, ...

Many welfare programs give greater benefits to unmarried individuals than to a married couple of otherwise identical income. The resulting marriage penalty discourages marriage and rewards single ...

Because the state does not track those who leave welfare, it is difficult to know if they have moved on to other taxpayer-funded programs. But social service advocates say the other programs' growth ...

The gap between the number of eligible Americans and those who actually receive public assistance benefits often comes down to the administrative burdens posed by state and federal bureaucracies.

Scammers have vacuumed billions out of Minnesota’s lavish human-services spending, and New York social programs are likely ...

Two of the weightiest questions in contemporary social ethics are: What is government’s legitimate role in welfare work? How ought the Christian Church to relate itself to the welfare role of ...

When conservatives lament the many ways in which the U.S. welfare system discourages marriage and family formation, it’s usually large-scale federal welfare programs such as public housing or the ...

ST. PAUL -- A new Minnesota program designed to encourage people to find a job before they accept welfare assistance begins this week. The program starts today. It will require people to look for work ...

This week Washington State kicked about 5,000 families off of its welfare program, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), while those who keep their monthly check from the state will now get ...

One of the things about America’s welfare-state way of life that has long fascinated me is how welfare-state advocates are convinced that this way of life ...

A former top state official in Mississippi pleaded guilty Thursday to state and federal charges in connection to an embezzlement scheme that auditors say misused millions of welfare dollars, including ...