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Florida Gov. Rick Scott will not seek U.S. Supreme Court review of a law that would have required applicants for welfare benefits to submit to mandatory...
Florida Gov. Rick Scott will not seek U.S. Supreme Court review of a law that would have required applicants for welfare benefits to submit to mandatory...
Maybe poverty in your state isn't as bad as you think.
An in-depth new interactive from Jake Grovum, a reporter at Pew's Stateline project,...
A new study is out providing support to one of my favorite ideas in public policy — that the best way to deal with the challenge of homelessness is to give...
On Tuesday, Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) released data on purchases made with state welfare benefits that he claimed exposed abuse, but they only add up to...
April McCray thought she had finally caught a break in late 2005. That’s when the state of Louisiana granted cash assistance to the single mother through...
April McCray thought she had finally caught a break in late 2005. That’s when the state of Louisiana granted cash assistance to the single mother through...
The Donald Trump phenomenon is driven in large part by working-class voters under economic strain. Republicans are increasingly talking about antipoverty...
The federal government is about to put $100 million behind a simple idea: doubling the value of SNAP benefits — what used to be called food stamps — when...
There may be a glimmer of hope for the Millennial Generation–my generation– when it comes to attitudes about government and the welfare state. In 2008,...
A friend recently sent me a link to an inspiring video about an upbeat young black man who was born without arms. It showed him going to work -- unlike the...
If it paid better to stay at home and not work, what would you do? That’s a question being asked in more than 30 states. Thirty-four states and the District...
