Foster parents, caregivers and state agencies can now review high-level data of all 50 states’ child welfare systems, ...

The government provides at least one means-tested, welfare-type program to roughly one out of every five Americans (unless you count Social Security, in which case the number goes up considerably). In ...

One of the most contentious issues in the recent debt ceiling negotiations was putting more work requirements into government benefits. In the final bill that President Biden signed into law, ...

Historically, marriage has played a critical role in the raising of children. In most cases, the economic benefits of marriage are substantial. Marriage among families with children is an extremely ...

Note: This piece originally ran in 2016, we’re reposting it this week in light of updated welfare data. Twenty years ago, the federal government took a pretty simple cash welfare system — if you were ...

Over on Alternet Joshua Holland got very het up about the great new right wing lie. This all has relevance today as David Brooks has been using the same sorts of figures to show that the US does in ...

As the 1997 Welfare Reform Law comes up for reauthorization, Betty Ann Bowser looks at the impact it has had in the state of Connecticut. Three years ago, Nicole Drury was barely hanging on. She had ...

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is expanding its partnership with public universities to strengthen the state’s child welfare workforce, according to a MDHHS press release ...

Former directors of state DFCS tell governor they “are deeply concerned that this crisis is accelerating and that additional ...