welfare

Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton signed a welfare reform bill he said would "end welfare as we know it."The goal of the bill was to get poor…

Zero. That's how many welfare recipients have tested positive for banned drugs since Michigan started drug testing welfare beneficiaries, according to The…

What you see above is a chart of all 80 federal programs that provide help to low-income families. This chart was prepared by the leaders of the U.S.…

Michigan spends about $5.6 billion on social welfare programs a year, and that doesn't include health care. Even though that's only about 10% of the…

Governor Snyder recently signed into a law a set of rules about absences from school. These laws don’t affect every kid and family. But families living in…

Over the holidays, Governor Snyder signed a bill to bring back drug testing for welfare beneficiaries.Snyder signed the bill on Christmas Eve, so it’s not…

What happens when you take high school students from a poor school and have them interact with high school students from a rich school? Well, if you're…

At the end of this week food stamp benefit levels are going to fall for the 1.75 million people in Michigan who use the program. A boost from federal…

In 1998, Amy Valderas was a single mom with three kids, all under the age of seven. She stayed at home. She had no work experience. She lived with her…

Popping up on my facebook feed and elsewhere the last few weeks has been an urban legend in the making. It's a claim people on government benefits…