Welfare
More than 35 million Americans have incomes that fall below the poverty line, and more than one in five American children are poor. In 1994, nearly half of all poor children under the age of s...
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Wade Horn, the Bush administration's point man for welfare reform, Head Start and abstinence education, resigned Monday as assistant secretary for children and families.In the Department of Health ...
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Eleven years after Congress changed welfare to focus on work, some states are sidestepping the rules by starting their own welfare programs.They're shifting around existing accounts so their most v...
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Wisconsin's landmark welfare reform program was dealt a setback Tuesday by a state appeals court that said the state must continue giving assistance to participants who are ready to enter the work ...
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The welfare state is bigger than ever despite a decade of policies designed to wean poor people from public aid.The number of families receiving cash benefits from welfare has plummeted since the g...
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New welfare rules make it harder for states to move people from public assistance to self-sufficiency, state officials told Congress on Tuesday.Stricter work requirements limit opportunities for ed...
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Susan Gramza credits Wisconsin's groundbreaking welfare reform program with helping her land a job as a housekeeping manager, support her four children and put away money, too. But another mother, ...
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Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson said Saturday that election of a Democrat to the White House in 2008 would open the way for a welfare state where bigger government, higher taxes and...
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In the year since a 7-year-old was found beaten to death in a rodent-infested room in her family's apartment, the city's child welfare agency has improved staffing, case tracking and coordination w...
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Welfare
Welfare, abstinence chief resigns
