Earlier this month, the Trump administration announced a new rule expanding what it means for a noncitizen to be a “public charge” by collecting welfare benefits. Several states and advocacy groups ...

The Division of Welfare and Supportive Services (DWSS) today announced partnerships with retail locations across the state to help reach people who cannot access online applications. Local retailers ...

One of the longtime dividing lines between conservatives and liberals or progressives is whether those receiving welfare benefits should be required to work. Conservatives see the requirement as a way ...

Kids love Santa. They don’t have to work for the stuff on their Christmas lists; he just gives it to them. In many states, gratuitous welfare benefits have made that childhood fantasy an adult reality ...

The disparity between what the federal government collects in taxes and what it spends was never greater than during the pandemic, when annual deficits peaked at $3.1 trillion in 2020. Even today, ...

EJ Antoni is the is the Acting Director for the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies and Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, Chief Economist, and Richard Aster Fellow at ...

Expanded federal unemployment benefits, put in place as an emergency measure during the COVID-19 pandemic, are on course to become another long-term "welfare trap," a government fiscal watchdog group ...