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Citing Heritage Foundation research, Mitt Romney’s campaign ran an ad accusing President Obama of attempting to “gut” welfare reform by waiving work requirements for recipients. The Obama campaign pushed back, claiming that waiving work requirements would “strengthen” reform by helping more recipients “prepare for work.”

Raising the minimum wage may cause some low-income workers toreceive fewer government benefits.

In part 2 of an 8-part series, Marvin Olasky describes what it was like to try and reform welfare and poverty-fighting efforts when Republicans held both houses of Congress for the first time in over 40 years.

Deseret News asked experts across the political spectrum what they expect for family policy in the next two years. From abortion to the child tax credit, paid leave and child care subsidies, experts have different priorities and views of control of the House and Senate post-midterms as final counts for Democrats and Republicans are tallied.

People with disabilities have nearly three times the unemployment rate of workers without disabilities, but their numbers are improving in Colorado and nationwide, officials say.

As winter approaches, it is time to start preparing for heating season. All around the world, the cost of fuel is higher than last year. While the Public Servic

However, far too often today, the tax code is fueling the demand for government, and increasing dependency on it. This vicious cycle is destroying the government’s finances and — more importantly — making it harder for Americans to lead productive, independent lives.

Congress must remove from pending legislation a union-backedprovision that would block states from using private contractors toreduce costs and improve service in the Food Stamp Program.

CONCORD —On August 1, 2022, energy supply rates increased drastically in New Hampshire with costs per kilowatt hour (kWh) doubling from 10.669 c/kWh to 22.566 c/kWh with one of New

Richland County Commissioners get local data, review programs planned for Septembers Recovery Month.