This controversial new program requires adults who receive cash assistance from San Francisco and struggle with addiction to ...

A man was taken into custody after an armed standoff with police in southeast Portland Sunday, according to the Portland ...

Employees at fashion house Gucci in Italy are threatening strike action, accusing the Kering-owned brand of denying them a ...

In part, this is due to the fact that the U.S. welfare system actively penalizes many low-income parents who do marry. The anti-marriage incentives built into the welfare state are indefensible.

Poverty and child welfare activist David Ambroz shares his experience of homelessness, abuse and foster care in his new ...

Welfare fraud is actually rare, no matter what the myths and stereotypes say Stigma has power."But if you ask about the things that welfare performs, you get support for it," says Noam Chomsky ...

Tens of thousands of people are still at risk of being pushed into poverty due to Labour’s welfare cuts despite last-minute ...

Welfare didn't exist in America before the Great Depression and Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. It officially came into being as a rule under the Social Security Act in 1935, offering aid to ...

Judged by the size of the welfare rolls, Reagan’s campaign against welfare was at least as futile. By 1988, there were 10.9 million recipients on AFDC, about the same number as when he took office .