Lucknow: Funds for the welfare of the labourers in Uttar Pradesh could not be generated to the desired extent, said the CAG ...

The Department of Energy targeted low-income households that qualify for federal weatherization assistance as part of former ...

Welfare fraud is actually rare, no matter what the myths and stereotypes say Stigma has power."But if you ask about the things that welfare performs, you get support for it," says Noam Chomsky ...

In part, this is due to the fact that the U.S. welfare system actively penalizes many low-income parents who do marry. The anti-marriage incentives built into the welfare state are indefensible.

Employees at fashion house Gucci in Italy are threatening strike action, accusing the Kering-owned brand of denying them a ...

In his new book "The Queen," author Josh Levin tells the story of Linda Taylor, a woman who became infamous as a welfare cheat. She was a woman who went by many names, was accused of many crimes ...

Judged by the size of the welfare rolls, Reagan’s campaign against welfare was at least as futile. By 1988, there were 10.9 million recipients on AFDC, about the same number as when he took office .

The original welfare program cost around $30 billion in today’s dollars, he said, while the government now spends twice as much on that on the Earned Income Tax Credit, expanded in the 1990s to ...