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A Woodhull woman has been arrested on welfare fraud charges after officials say she stole benefits from the Steuben County ...

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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.

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 .