Alimony Reform
While the initial concept of alimony was intended to assist someone in taking steps to support himself or herself, our existing system has turned into a system of private welfare.
While the initial concept of alimony was intended to assist someone in taking steps to support himself or herself, our existing system has turned into a system of private welfare.
AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
CHICAGO — 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...
Seattle Times | Melissa Allison | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business
Costco Wholesale plans to accept food stamps at its warehouse stores nationwide, a major shift for a company that earlier this year said it doubted th...
Les Leopold | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
Our politicians thrive on chastising the fictitious welfare queens who supposedly turn our hard-earned tax dollars into Cadillacs. But when it comes to Wall Street we let the welfare kings walk all over us.
nytimes.com | Patrick McGeehan | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York
Tens of thousands of New Yorkers have had the unfortunate distinction of collecting unemployment benefits longer than anyone in the state's history. B...
The Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact
Writer Becky Bosshart was laid off from her Las Vegas newspaper job while writing a series on the recession and unemployed Nevadans. Nevada is one of ...
AP | STEVEN K. PAULSON | Posted 10.01.2009 | Denver
DENVER (AP)- Colorado counties say they will fight any attempt by the state to take over social services following the deaths of several children. Th...
Jason Mannino | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living
Fifteen years ago at my grandmother's funeral was the last time I saw my dad. Two weeks ago I was standing in front of him face to face. It wasn't the visit I had hoped for. He had departed his body 3 days earlier, and I was in attendance at his funeral.
Irasema Garza | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
As bleak as the poverty figures appear, the Census Bureau's numbers likely underestimate the depth and scale of the problem. Given the scale of the problem facing us, we must address the structural issues that frustrate our efforts to help poor Americans.
Alex Higgins | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Opposition to health care reform is just the latest iteration of the usually unstated idea that public welfare itself is a devious system for taking money from whites and giving it to blacks.
Louise Marie Roth | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
There is growing evidence that the neediest families are falling through the welfare cracks under the new regime, especially in this weak economy.
Sam Greenfield | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living
That if you are poor, the government should pay for your education, medical care, housing, clothing, and food. That the richest people in the country...
Dan Collins | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York
When I heard the state of New York is giving welfare payments a tiny bump up, I marveled at how welfare has vanished from the political debate.
New York Times | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York
The last time welfare recipients in New York saw an increase in their basic cash allowance, Derek Jeter was in high school, a subway token cost $1.15 ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.27.2009 | Business
Welfare rolls are swelling in states across the country as unemployment rates surge -- except in Michigan. With an unemployment rate of 14.1 percent...
Irasema Garza | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
Now, more than ever, we need a functioning social safety net -- one that helps families keep food on the table in times of crisis, while providing a toe hold to a more economically secure future.
Wall Street Journal | SARA MURRAY | Posted 07.22.2009 | Home
Welfare rolls, which were slow to rise and actually fell in many states early in the recession, now are climbing across the country for the first time...
AP | TOM BREEN | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Want government assistance? Just say no to drugs. Lawmakers in at least eight states want recipients of food stamps, unempl...
Don McNay | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business
A program that gives back $1.73 for every dollar spent is a better return than Wall Street is offering.
James Adler | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics
It is clear our nation needs the stimulus package. But will it create sufficient jobs for persons on the lowest rungs of the job ladder?
Eric Deggans | Posted 03.14.2009 | Media
The worst irony may be that those of us clucking over her excesses also help feed the frenzy of attention that will allow her to cash in on her horribly pathological choices.
Judith Ellis | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics
Some who are against the stimulus package are so because of an ill-conceived ideology that the poor will be living large on their hard earned dollar.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 03.09.2009 | Business
Taxpayers, who despise the notion of welfare queens, should demand Congress "discredit" and dethrone the kings of Wall Street.
Kim Stagliano | Posted 03.08.2009 | Living
Let's imagine two well coiffed, Botoxed and manicured women from a fictional town in Fairfield County, "New Stamienwich" driving to a charity luncheon in Bridgeport, the largest and poorest city in Connecticut.
Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
A society cannot survive without a safety net and we don't have one during the worst economic crisis in decades.
Fred Silberberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living