Stories Tagged as
Welfare
What will new welfare work requirements mean for recipients?
by
Sabri Ben-Achour
, Krissy Clark
and Ariana Rosas
Jun 12, 2023
New work requirements on welfare were part of the debt ceiling deal. How might they affect benefit recipients?
Did the enhanced child tax credit really reduce household poverty?
by
David Brancaccio
, Chris Farrell
and Jarrett Dang
Mar 24, 2022
Early studies find that the enhanced credit reduced childhood poverty and food insufficiency.
What it's like to navigate the first year of motherhood without a stable home
Apr 28, 2020
Data can tell us who is on welfare, but not what it's like to to live in the system.
What lunch shaming tells us about how we think about poor people
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Bridget Bodnar
Mar 10, 2020
The way we talk about poverty and the the people living in it could be getting in the way of solving inequality. One example? Lunch shaming.
How welfare has changed since 1996, in three charts
Jul 23, 2018
Check out the national data and then use our tool to run the numbers on your state.
Do work requirements for welfare recipients work?
by
Paulina Velasco
and Jana Kasperkevic
Apr 13, 2018
The president seems to think so, but not all experts agree.
A Baltimore program tries to help unmarried couples with children build more stable relationships
by
Amy Scott
Dec 12, 2017
There's a marriage divide in the US that's leaving many working-class and poor kids "doubly disadvantaged," a researcher says.
For public good, not for profit.
On the Canadian prairie, a basic income experiment
Dec 20, 2016
Canada tested the basic income in Dauphin, Manitoba, in the 1970s.
The legacy of welfare reform, 20 years later
by
Caitlin Esch
Aug 22, 2016
We follow the money. How is it spent and to what impact?