Work Requirements Less About Welfare Savings Than About Well-Being
Saving money is an aspect of the debt-ceiling debate, but work requirements are key to making long-term well-being central to the safety net.
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Saving money is an aspect of the debt-ceiling debate, but work requirements are key to making long-term well-being central to the safety net.
Legislation passed by the House of Representatives would requireall states to impose meaningful sanctions on Temporary Assistanceto Needy Families...
<p>A leading historian of poor people's activism joins HNN for a discussion of the new edition of her acclaimed book on the Las Vegas Welfare Rights movement, which is the basis for a documentary now streaming on PBS. </p>
Kentucky Senate Bill 241 requires some landowners to get permits for hunting and fishing on their property. Learn about the new public access easement too.
The arrival of COVID-19 in the U.S. at end of March led to one of the sharpest economic downturns in U.S. history. The unemployment rate peaked in April at 14.7 percent. This caused immediate and unprecedented financial ramifications for the millions of Americans who were suddenly unemployed—particularly low-income Americans. While there has been an uptick in the economy—10.6 million jobs were added between May and August, and the unemployment rate fell to 8.4 percent—many low-income Americans remain on the edges of the economic recovery.