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 ...

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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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Description: Poverty rates in the United States have been declining for years, with the 2019 poverty rate one of the lowest on record; a downward trend that continued even during the 2020 pandemic.

Economic research shows that the safety net reduces poverty and boosts mobility. Republicans in the House of Representatives released a report in February that relies on a misleading and incomplete ...

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 ...

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 ...