For two years, Ashley Murphy was raising two children while making $9 an hour at a retail job and receiving welfare. Murphy said it was not possible to support a family on that income. She quit her ...

In his negative remarks on the possibility of a guaranteed income for all citizens, Walter E. Williams observes that the Irish immigrants who came to this country in the mid-19th century had no ...

There are few institutions as culturally sacrosanct and legally violated as the American family. Each year child welfare authorities separate half a million children from their parents. The system ...

Dilemmas of organization building the case of welfare rights (Piven, Frances Fox Cloward, Richard A.) ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. According to reporting by Mississippi Today, Gov. Phil Bryant’s welfare ...

You probably missed it in the flood of words thrown back and forth about pre-emptive war, middle-class squeeze, terror and forged memos, but the usually salient issue ...