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March 25, 2024
Grace Segers
Can This Forgotten Anti-Poverty Progam Be Saved?
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program was created to get low-income families back on their feet. But does it actually work?
December 30, 2022
Prem Thakker
Sports Scumbag of the Year: Brett Favre
The former NFL player is embroiled in what may be Mississippi’s biggest corruption scandal ever: the misuse of welfare funds for ego projects that did nothing to help the state’s poor people.
February 5, 2021
Bryce Covert
It’s a Joke to Let Mitt Romney Set the Horizon on Child Poverty
The Utah senator’s plan for a basic income for families is an improvement on what’s out there. It’s also an incredibly narrow vision of what the government can do for the most vulnerable.
May 12, 2020
J.C. Pan
Work Requirements Have Always Been About Punishment
The pandemic has offered a brief respite from policies that force people to work to “deserve” basic support like food stamps. We can’t go back.
January 31, 2018
Sarah Jaffe
How the Media Is Abetting the GOP’s War on “Welfare”
Bill Clinton already ended welfare as we knew it. So what, exactly, are Republicans after now?
September 12, 2017
Clio Chang
Under Donald Trump, the Poor Have Never Been More Vulnerable
New poverty data from the Census Bureau reveals the extent of the damage that Trump and Paul Ryan could do to America’s neediest communities.
June 28, 2017
Bryce Covert
Trumpcare Is a Giant Slush Fund
A provision in the Senate's bill gives states near-carte blanche to spend health care money on whatever they want.
May 4, 2017
Clio Chang
The GOP health care bill ramps up Washington’s war on the poor.
March 14, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Bad Idea of the Day: Drug Testing Welfare Applicants
January 9, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Rubio Talks Poverty, Says Things That Are Not Totally Crazy
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