Welfare is a common label for government-funded programs for American individuals and families with low incomes.

The overwhelming majority of District welfare recipients who have been referred to a new subsidized-jobs program are not participating, a trend that has alarmed city officials and advocates for ...

Millions of ineligible enrollees have been removed from state Medicaid programs over the past year. Medicaid is a means-tested welfare program, so states must properly and regularly assess income ...

Overpayments in another program, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, also rocketed more than 2,000 percent after 2017, peaking at almost a third of all program spending. Government health ...

The bureaucracy surrounding welfare programs makes them very expensive, inefficient, and confusing to navigate.

We looked at federal spending data from the past few years to see how much the government regularly spends on welfare programs. We compared that data to spending in other areas. We present our ...

This overhaul mitigated some of the worst aspects of traditional welfare; on the other hand, all the remaining welfare programs remained almost entirely unchanged.