States are increasingly deploying artificial intelligence to help manage their social safety net programs and reduce worker caseloads, but advocates warn there's little evidence of safeguards around ...

Safety-net programs need to not only be budgeted for but also aimed at the right people to ensure receipt of proper health care. The Medicaid Continuous Enrollment Provision is nearing its conclusion, ...

Twenty-four House Republicans proposed a bill to strengthen work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) last week, continuing a long-running debate over work requirements ...

Your rent goes up, groceries cost more, and your paycheck doesn’t get the memo. You’re working, you’re trying, and you still end up doing that quiet math in your head: “If I pay this bill today, what ...

America’s broken safety net system has over 80 programs, costs $1.6 trillion annually, and perpetually underperforms. It’s inefficient, costly, and perversely functions like a snare net that traps ...

Since the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, known as “welfare reform,” in 1996, US social policy has increasingly stratified immigrants by legality, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University. Anyone who has raised kids knows what happens when you give them a ...

The new administration wants to slash aid for health, food and housing, but many of those programs now reach the struggling working class he is courting. By Jason DeParle In his first term as ...

Leslie Ford was a Visiting Fellow in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Federal policymakers faced with a rapidly spreading global pandemic and state shutdowns turned ...

Editor's Note: Kristin S. Seefeldt is an assistant professor in the Schools of Social Work and Public Policy at the University of Michigan and the author of "Abandoned Families: Social Isolation in ...

Safety-net programs improve health for low-income children over the short and long term. In September 2018 the Trump administration announced its intention to change the guidance on how to identify a ...