Welfare reform, initiated by Republican governors at the state level in the 1990s and later passed by a Republican Congress and signed by a reluctant President Bill Clinton in 1996, was one of the ...

With the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, the United States embarked on a major policy change to its social welfare and safety net ...

Should you work to get welfare? Republicans in the House of Representatives say yes. It’s the right answer. House Republicans passed their proposal to raise the debt ceiling Wednesday, and they’ve ...

I remember welfare-reform politicking in 1996 and the Republican effort to add a work requirement (“Lost Lessons of the 1996 Welfare Reform” by Kate Bachelder Odell, Weekend Interview, June 3). I was ...

Reform of the welfare system "must happen", the Work and Pensions Secretary, Pat McFadden, has told the BBC. Speaking two weeks after taking over the welfare brief, he vowed to press ahead with ...

Wonder Land: The country is drifting right and opposition conservatives better not miss the turn. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly No sooner did House Republicans and ...

The rise in abortion and the collapse of marriage are intrinsically linked. Some 86 percent of abortions occur to non-married women. Some 35 percent of pregnancies among non-married women are ended by ...