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Do you know what Maryland gives its welfare recipients so they can access cash and food benefits? An “Independence Card.”

Poverty was basically unchanged in 2004. We need more economicgrowth to make progress.

"Work" Bill Would Cripple Welfare Reform

Each year, when you hear the latest Census Bureau numbers on poverty -- when they say how many of our fellow Americans are poor -- what do you picture?

To improve affordability, we must increase family incomes and reduce governmental policies that restrain housing supply and raisecosts. The Millennial Housing Commission report proposes widely expanding housing programs, but, to a large degree, ignores these underlying factors that create housing problems in the first place.

Welfare spending has hit a stunning all-time high. A new Congressional Research Service report confirms what research here at the Heritage Foundation has shown: Means-tested welfare programs now cost taxpayers roughly $1 trillion a year.

(Archived document, may contain errors)   4/26/90 264 HOW CONGRESS IS MAKING THE NEW ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT UNCONSTITUTIONAL

It's red faces for those claiming government should subsidize "green" jobs for American workers. According to new reports, they're not very well-paying jobs, and many could be exported to overseas workers. Plus, many of the other jobs from the bill would go to illegal immigrants!

The Family Security Act 2.0 helps defray the cost of raising children for low- and mid-income families, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said during a meeting at American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. The plan gives a child allowance, even mid-pregnancy, has work incentives, earned income requirement, and cap on earnings to qualify. Heritage foundation, AEI, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Urban Institute commented. Read more about child allowance proposal and sponsors Steve Daines and Rich...

The consequences of his Great Society have been profound.