The erosion of marriage is the principal cause of child poverty, Welfare dependence, and a host of other social problems. The Welfare reform act of 1996 established illegitimacy reduction as a ...

Congressional Republicans and the Trump administration are eyeing sweeping legislative and regulatory changes to the country’s welfare system next year. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said he wants ...

Welfare reform has been a success. However lawmakers must again take the reigns to adopt proposals which will advance, not halt, progress. As Ronald Reagan said, "Welfare's purpose should be to ...

The Social Security Act was signed into law on Aug. 14, 1935. At that time, there were 7.8 million Americans who were eligible to receive benefits.

On a theoretical level, welfare reform moved the social safety net in the U.S. much more in a pro-work direction. But for families that didn't work ...

As part of its all-out effort to rein in the welfare state, the Trump Administration is requiring all federal agencies to submit plans for revising welfare programs over the next 90 days.

The 1996 federal welfare-reform law, which time-limited aid and imposed a work requirement on many recipients, also gave the states wide latitude in designing welfare programs. New York State, in turn ...

In a recent book, I examine social welfare policy developments in the U.S. over a 50-year period from the New Deal to the 1996 reforms. Findings reveal that U.S. welfare policies have, from their ...

Welfare reform proponents further argued AFDC had entrenched ... But those trends could be mostly attributed to a simultaneous boom in the economy—and not necessarily to welfare reform, social ...

Last week, the government won a vote on its benefits bill by 75 votes, but only after offering last-minute concessions to ...

Kendall says welfare reforms will address ‘economic and social crisis’ - Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall insisted changes are necessary to get people off benefits and into work.