Progress on a child welfare agreement to reform the system stalled last year when First Nations twice rejected a ...

Ottawa offers a $35.5-billion plan for child-welfare reform, a year after the AFN rejected the previous federal offer of a ...

Welfare reform, initiated by Republican governors at the state level in the 1990s and later passed by a Republican Congress and signed by a reluctant President Bill Clinton in 1996, was one of the ...

In a House divided, Republicans and Democrats have found surprising common ground: Reforming the nation’s sprawling child welfare system. The Protecting America’s Children by Strengthening Families ...

Former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., apparently was in no mood to mince words that day in 1996 when he described the welfare-reform bill that had just been enacted by a Republican Congress and ...

Michigan was exemplary in its reform efforts. While welfare rolls nationally decreased by around 50 percent on average, the decline in the Wolverine state was a remarkable 62 percent. Michigan's ...

Welfare reform may be the last great bipartisan success story. It was enacted in 1996 by a Republican Congress led by Newt Gingrich and by Democratic President Bill Clinton in response to decades of ...