The Trump administration is looking into whether Minnesota tax money found its way to al Shabaab, an al Qaeda affiliate based ...

A few months ago, Christie Gardner's apartment was wrecked by a fire. Now she's living with the damage left by the fire, smoke, water, and the firemen who helped save her apartment. "It's a total ...

At the same time, the strategy of targeting welfare could help the GOP steer clear of proposing cuts to the popular old-age entitlement programs Social Security and Medicare. In other words, it’s an ...

Children in poverty tend to have healthier brains and fewer mental health problems if they live in states with more generous welfare programs, according to a new study supported by the National ...

THE CLAIM: The majority of people on welfare assistance are Black. “Welfare queens” exist and they constantly take advantage of government social support programs. The majority of those who receive ...

In October 2025, investigators shut down Minnesota's Housing Stabilization Services program after discovering massive fraud.

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 ...

The Biden administration is blocking states from moving people from welfare to work. The federal government has banned state work requirements for food-stamp recipients since March 2020, and the Biden ...

The New York Times recently admitted that child poverty has been cut by more than 50 percent since 1993. And indeed, America’s progress in reducing child poverty in the past 30 years has been nothing ...

SSI is a federal welfare program that really has nothing to do with Social Security, other than the fact that it is managed by the Social Security Administration. Juanmonino / Getty Images I can tell ...

My name is Robert Rector. I am a Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. The views I express in this testimony are my own and should not be construed as representing any official position ...