Twenty-four House Republicans proposed a bill to strengthen work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) last week, continuing a long-running debate over work requirements ...

Two years into the pandemic, trends in four major safety net programs that operate outside of the tax system reveal a mixed picture. Participation in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) ...

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(CNN) — The clock is ticking for four major social safety net programs that keep tens of millions of struggling Americans — including millions of children and senior citizens — fed and warm, as well ...

It is time to rethink America’s social safety net. Not because it is broken, but because it is working all too well. The current safety net does what it was designed to do, namely make poverty easier ...

The Trump administration's $4.8 trillion budget has a number of winners, including NASA and defense spending. But among the losers would be social safety-net programs that are relied on by many low- ...

Leslie Ford was a Visiting Fellow in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Federal policymakers faced with a rapidly spreading global pandemic and state shutdowns turned ...

Hundreds of people waited for help with their unemployment benefits outside the Kentucky state Capitol in June 2020. (Ryan C. Hermens/TNS) While the reasons for this lack of access are multiple and ...

The new administration wants to slash aid for health, food and housing, but many of those programs now reach the struggling working class he is courting. By Jason DeParle In his first term as ...

President Trump signaled its return to the forefront of national policy debates in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, when he announced a plan to “lift our citizens from welfare to work.” He ...