Work improves lives. We in the Midwest know this is true. In the last few decades, the Midwest has been a case study in the effectiveness of work requirements in welfare to create opportunity, ...

In the U.S., the so-called “moral imperative” to work is bumping up against a less romantic reality: wages that lag behind inflation and benefits that, ironically, make not working a more rational ...

Just as Republicans in Congress are moving to beef up work requirements for people who receive welfare, California lawmakers are moving to do the opposite. Included in a recent state Assembly budget ...

Right now, there are more job openings in the United States than people looking for work. Allowing anyone to qualify for welfare when they simply don’t want to work isn’t making things any better.

“Get a job!” That sums up our current cash welfare system in a nutshell. Ever since so-called welfare reform in the 1990s, the system has been based on the idea that welfare recipients must be doing ...

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the 1996 welfare reform law. Crafted by Congressional Republicans, that legislation was approved by large bipartisan majorities before being signed into law by ...

The decision to create a "Work and Welfare" subcommittee within the House Ways and Means Committee drew lengthy complaints from Democrats this week who said that name is deeply offensive to people who ...

As Congress considers the debt ceiling deal negotiated by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, here’s what you need to know about the work requirements in it. The Temporary Assistance ...

Fox News commentator and political analyst Gianno Caldwell will testify Tuesday at the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Work and Welfare field hearing, “The Dignity of Work: Lifting ...

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Western Michigan University is now offering a pathway for students interested in becoming child welfare professionals to learn more about child welfare-related work. Graduate students currently ...