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1 in 7 Americans are on food stamps, but the government is pushing to enroll more — in many instances working to overcome Americans’ “pride,” self-reliance or failure to see a need. “Our common goal is to increase participation
A nightclub in Montgomery, Ala. is raising eyebrows by hosting a “Food Stamp Friday” party on April 6 that the Friday night cover charge will be just $5 if a “food stamp card” is shown upon arrival.
The American public's dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released study by the Heritage Foundation.
Federal prosecutors in West Virginia are investigating a former Social Security Administration judge who awarded disability benefits in nearly every case that crossed his desk, according to people familiar with the investigation.
Congress passed a bill that included spending on disaster relief. Clearly unconstitutional, like 99% of everything Congress does. Obama will certainly sign the bill. There was a time when a Democratic president would do no such thing.
Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday signed into law a stricter, four-year lifetime limit on cash welfare benefits, prompting advocates for the poor to warn that tens of thousands of residents will find themselves without cash assistance on Oct. 1. Snyder
Congress has been battling to pass a continuing resolution to fund government through September. Both supporters and opponents claim HR1 is a serious attempt to reduce federal spending. However, an examination of the details of the bill call that cla
Job losses sends families flocking to low-income health insurance program More people signed up for Medicaid last year than at any time since the program's inception, as the recession wiped out jobs and workplace health coverage.
...many instead concern themselves with getting the so called “fair share” for their state and community from the federal government, while the monstrous federal government smugly takes the lion’s share for itself.
Germany gives a recent example demonstrating that, contrary to popular wisdom, economies recover from actual economic growth and not government spending.
Shocking truth about a growing emergency
At 11 p.m. on the last day of the month, shoppers flock to the nearest Walmart. They load their carts with food and wait for the midnight hour. That's when food stamp credits are loaded on their electronic benefits transfer cards.
With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children.
Older Americans who were raised on stories of the Great Depression and acquired lifelong habits of thrift now find themselves crowding soup kitchens and food pantries in greater numbers for the first time after seeing retirement funds, second jobs a
A surge in first time visitors has contributed to the greatest demand in years at food banks nationwide, according to Feeding America, a Chicago-based national food bank association. Many of the first timers were middle class but lost jobs or had the
Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say.
Detroit, Riot City: In scenes better suited to a Third World country tens of thousands of desperate people assemble in the hope of receiving $3,500 emergency welfare aid disbursements. Unemployment in Detroit is 29%.
Gov. Deval Patrick’s free wheels for welfare recipients program is revving up despite the stalled economy, as the keys to donated cars loaded with state-funded insurance, repairs and even AAA membership are handed out to get them to work.
Iqbal Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi -- and to become a champion of bottom-up development.
During her confirmation hearing, Sebelius avoided endorsing a plan to make people legally responsible for seeing that they're insured. The concept of how, or whether, universal coverage would be mandated is just one of the thorny issues to be dea
Lawmakers in at least eight states want recipients of food stamps, unemployment benefits or welfare to submit to random drug testing. The effort comes as more Americans turn to these safety nets to ride out the recession. Poverty and civil liberties
A 1998 video showing then State Sen. Barack Obama stating he wasn't thrilled with the 1996 welfare reform bill signed by Clinton in 1996. The bill that he is signing today will create a situation where the feds will encourage more people to take
