welfare
Posted Mar 10, 2022, 6:14 am
Eli Hager
/ProPublica
Across the Southwest, states are reconsidering how they approach welfare, with several legislatures enacting or considering new laws to ensure that more assistance is made available to low-income families struggling to afford rent, child care, groceries and diapers. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 17, 2022, 7:54 am
Eli Hager
/ProPublica
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program - touted by members of Congress as a highly effective cash assistance program for low-income parents and kids - is a program distinguished by failure and no substitute for a monthly federal stipend for families with children.... Read more»
Posted Dec 30, 2021, 8:06 am
Eli Hager
/ProPublica
In the 25 years since President Bill Clinton took Ronald Reagan's notions to their apotheosis in his 1996 welfare reform law - which Clinton said would “end welfare as we know it” - federal welfare funding, frozen by law at 1996 levels, has been decimated.... Read more»
Posted Dec 29, 2021, 8:15 am
Hannah Dreyfus
/ProPublica
States are sitting on $5.2 billion in unspent funds from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program amid rising poverty rates among all age groups across the county. ... Read more»
Posted Dec 27, 2021, 6:29 am
Eli Hager
/ProPublica
Each year, Arizona redirects upward of $30 million of its welfare funding to the Department of Child Safety - over $8 million more than the state spends on welfare itself - who then investigate the same low-income families who could have benefited from cash assistance.... Read more»
Posted Dec 23, 2021, 12:18 pm
Eli Hager
/ProPublica
Utah has been counting millions in LDS Church welfare work every year as part of the state’s welfare budget, as a way of meeting the minimum level of effort the state is required to put into addressing poverty so it can collect on federal dollars and increasing church membership.... Read more»
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Posted Sep 21, 2021, 1:24 pm
Eli Hager
/ProPublica
Women who apply for welfare often have to identify who fathered their children and when they got pregnant, among other deeply personal details, then state governments use that information to pursue child support from the dads — and pocket the money. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 5, 2021, 7:05 am
Ariana Figueroa
/Arizona Mirror
Experts at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities outline how states can remove restrictive requirements placed on Black families to receive cash assistance for food, bills or rent, after research found that Black women with children were repeatedly excluded from the programs.... Read more»
Posted Jul 30, 2020, 12:08 pm
Rox Laird
/Courthouse News Service
A federal judge in New York issued a nationwide injunction Wednesday barring enforcement of a Trump administration rule that prevents immigrants from qualifying for green cards or other visas if they are likely to become dependent on government benefits.... Read more»
Posted Aug 8, 2017, 10:04 am
Robert Farley
/Factcheck.org
FactCheck examines President Donald Trump claims that the RAISE Act “prevents … new immigrants from collecting welfare.” ... Read more»
Posted Mar 19, 2015, 11:15 am
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
I'm sorry, did they trip over something? Arizona Senate President Andy Biggs is treating the results of Arizona's supply-side experiment like the Cousin Jesse the kids aren't supposed to talk about. Seems an odd approach, but a quarter-century of cutting taxes and spending has left Arizona trailing high-tax states.... Read more»
Posted Sep 22, 2014, 10:03 pm
Arnie Bermudez
/TucsonSentinel.com
The campaign commercials are out in full force. The candidates on the left and right have been picked and the mud-slinging has begun.... Read more»
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Posted Aug 2, 2013, 6:11 pm
Jonathan Reid
/Cronkite News Service
The director of Arizona’s Department of Economic Security told a House subcommittee Wednesday that money’s not the problem when it comes to the welfare system – the system is.... Read more»
Posted Feb 11, 2012, 9:23 am
Stephanie Snyder
/Cronkite News Service
A federal proposal aims to take away from welfare recipients the opportunity of using Electronic Benefit Transfer cards in liquor stores, casinos or strip clubs by forcing states to prohibit their use in those businesses.... Read more»
Posted Nov 14, 2011, 9:29 am
Factcheck.org
We found several exaggerations and misstatements in the latest Republican presidential candidates’ debate. Romney issued a hollow threat to take China’s currency manipulation to a world body that doesn’t actually deal with overvalued money, and he claimed federal spending consumes more of the nation’s economic output than it really does.... Read more»
Posted Feb 10, 2010, 11:18 am
Michael Truelsen
/TucsonSentinel.com
State Rep. Frank Antenori thinks you shouldn't be able to buy alcohol or tobacco if you're on welfare.... Read more»