Welfare reform was designed for good times, but what happens in a recession? In just four years, welfare-to-work programs have provided jobs for almost a million Californians who didn't have them ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act aims to connect welfare to work requirements. The bill implements the first federal work requirement for Medicaid, impacting able-bodied adults without children or with ...

A member of Local 79 of the Laborer’s Union, Hell’s Kitchen resident Norene Walker helped build the new state-of-the-art 52-story New York Times building on Eighth Avenue. She’s earned her biceps and ...

In the U.S., the so-called “moral imperative” to work is bumping up against a less romantic reality: wages that lag behind inflation and benefits that, ironically, make not working a more rational ...

Over the past 46 years that I’ve been part of America’s job training system, work requirements for government benefits have been proposed several times. Each time these work rules have been initially ...

A protest outside the U.S. Capitol of proposed Medicaid work requirements and other changes to the program being considered by Congress. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images/TNS) Over the past 46 years that I ...

(The Center Square) – Reinstating work requirements for some welfare recipients found support across the aisle on Wednesday. It’s a notable change after the partisan nature of the debate in recent ...

A Suffolk County advisory commission formed 22 years ago to help lawmakers craft policies that assist people on public assistance in finding employment will expire at the end of the month, despite ...

AAPI Nexus: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Policy, Practice and Community, Vol. 3, No. 2, Employment/Work Issues (Summer/Fall 2005), pp. 85-104 (20 pages) With the passage of the Personal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a simple question with an obvious answer: Should Americans work as a condition of receiving welfare? More than two-thirds of ...

Without a waiver, able-bodied adults would have to work at least 20 hours a week or spend the equivalent amount of time in a workforce development program. Until the requirement is met, benefits would ...