Twenty-four House Republicans proposed a bill to strengthen work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) last week, continuing a long-running debate over work requirements ...
Two years into the pandemic, trends in four major safety net programs that operate outside of the tax system reveal a mixed picture. Participation in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) ...
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These four crucial safety net programs are in danger as the government shutdown drags on
The clock is ticking for four major social safety net programs that keep tens of millions of struggling Americans — including millions of children and senior citizens — fed and warm, as well as ...
It is time to rethink America’s social safety net. Not because it is broken, but because it is working all too well. The current safety net does what it was designed to do, namely make poverty easier ...
Low-income Americans are struggling to obtain help from state governments when they most need it, facing long delays and sometimes insurmountable hurdles when applying for social safety net programs ...
Hundreds of people waited for help with their unemployment benefits outside the Kentucky state Capitol in June 2020. (Ryan C. Hermens/TNS) While the reasons for this lack of access are multiple and ...
Leslie Ford was a Visiting Fellow in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Federal policymakers faced with a rapidly spreading global pandemic and state shutdowns turned ...
New U.S. Census Bureau data show how more accessible and larger boosts to safety net programs kept poverty low during the COVID-19 recession, preventing a deeper economic crisis and spurring a faster ...
President Trump's 2018 budget, released Tuesday, proposes balancing the budget by cutting $1.74 trillion from social safety net programs and Medicaid and overhauling the tax code and regulatory ...
President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget proposal includes sweeping cuts to social spending for low-income Americans, including entitlement programs that the president promised to protect as a candidate, ...
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