SocietyNews
Congress Examines Welfare Reform: ‘The Most Effective Anti-Poverty Program Is a Job’
For the first time in a decade, the House Ways and Means Committee held a full committee hearing on welfare reform, addressing how to get… Read More
SocietyNews
For the first time in a decade, the House Ways and Means Committee held a full committee hearing on welfare reform, addressing how to get… Read More
EconomyCommentary
This week, the House is expected to markup its child nutrition bill, which covers programs such as school meals. The last child nutrition bill–the Healthy,… Read More
SocietyFeature
Jill Rothrock knows the moment she hit rock bottom. It was 2007, and Rothrock went into the pharmacy in Bucksport, Maine, to pick up a… Read More
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For Mary Mayhew, reforming the state’s welfare system hasn’t been easy. But the impact those reforms have had on Maine residents makes it all worth… Read More
Economy Commentary
Abraham Lincoln once said, “No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something… Read More
SocietyFeature
Greensboro, N.C.—Mark Walker spent his childhood in and out of prison. He wasn’t an inmate, but the chaplain’s son at one of Alabama’s minimum-security state… Read More
SocietyCommentary
States are often the best laboratories for testing out what public policies will make life better for their citizens. Maine’s experiment with welfare reform is a… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Newspaper headlines have been bemoaning that more states will now have to require adults on food stamps—who are able-bodied and without dependents—to work. Since 2009,… Read More
SocietyNews
The war on poverty is a war on work, the authors of a new book that criticizes the nation’s welfare system assert. Phil Harvey, chief… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This piece has been adapted from Crystal Wright’s new book: “Con Job: How Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering, and Racial Division.” It’s well… Read More