What Makes America Exceptional? Hint: It Is Not Social Security
In Alan Colmes’s view, social welfare programs have made America “exceptional.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Colmes’s preposterous article in The Wall Street… Read More
Morning Bell: Media “Fact Checkers” Promote Obama’s Gutting of Welfare Reform
Since Heritage’s Robert Rector and Kiki Bradley broke the story on July 12 that the Obama Administration had gutted the work requirements from the 1996… Read More
Obama Administration Already Tossed the Food Stamp Work Requirement
The Obama Administration sure is getting defensive about its recent action to waive all work requirements in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash… Read More
Heritage Legal Memo: Welfare Reform’s Work Requirements Cannot Be Waived
The Obama Administration is denying that it has gutted the work requirements from the 1996 welfare reform law, despite all evidence that it has. Heritage… Read More
Gingrich Blasts ‘Radical’ Obama’s Drive to Illegally Gut Welfare Reform
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who was instrumental in passing welfare reform in the 1990s, blasted President Obama’s attempt to gut the law in a… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama Denies Gutting Welfare Reform
The Obama Administration came out swinging against its critics on welfare reform yesterday, with Press Secretary Jay Carney saying the charge that the Administration gutted… Read More
U.S. Welfare System Fails to Support Work
Last Monday in The Washington Post, Charles Lane drew attention to the need for getting work incentives right in federal policy. “The Americans with Disabilities… Read More
Welfare Work Requirements Respect Human Dignity
The Obama Administration has effectively gutted the work requirements of the bipartisan welfare reforms of 1996. In doing so, it is trampling on the central… Read More
Rise in Food Stamps Part of Growing Dependence on Washington
America was supposed to be the land of self-government. Citizens were to govern themselves politically and morally. But such an independent citizen is proving to… Read More
Jordan and Southerland: Conservatives Need to Get Back in the Game on Welfare Reform
“It’s time for conservatives to get back in the game,” on welfare reform, write Representatives Jim Jordan (R–OH) and Steve Southerland (R–FL) in The Washington… Read More
How Welfare’s Work Requirements Make a Difference in Lives
On July 12, the Obama Administration issued a directive to gut welfare reform of its work requirements. But those who work closely with individuals in… Read More
Even More Bad News on Obama HHS Gutting Welfare Reform
The Obama Administration has created a firestorm by claiming the authority to waive the work requirements of the popular 1996 welfare reform law. But the… Read More
Nearly All Americans Favor Welfare Work Requirements
The vast majority of Americans favor work requirements for welfare recipients, a new Rasmussen survey reveals. According to the survey data, released last Wednesday, “83%… Read More
Farm Bill Misses Crucial Food Stamp Reform
The U.S. Department of Agriculture appears to be on a mission to recruit food stamp participants. Radio advertisements, Spanish telenovelas (soap operas), and reaching across… Read More
What Taxmageddon Really Means for Families
Taxmageddon is approaching closer by the day. Much of the focus has been on the impact Taxmageddon will have on the economy. But just how… Read More
Online Chat on Welfare Reform – LIVE NOW
Last week, the Obama administration bypassed Congress to gut the successful 1996 welfare reform law of its work requirements. Click here to join us right… Read More
Obama Administration Rebuffs Congressional Inquiry on Legality of Gutting Welfare Reform
Two Members of Congress demanded an official explanation from Obama’s Health and Human Services Department (HHS) for its gutting of welfare work requirements—and HHS responded… Read More
Morning Bell: The End of Welfare Reform As We Know It
The Obama Administration made yet another end run around Congress last week—this time, to gut the successful welfare reform law of 1996. If this is… Read More
Obama Ends Welfare Reform as We Know It, Calls for $12.7 Trillion in New Welfare Spending
Last Thursday, the Obama Administration quietly issued new bureaucratic rules that overturned the popular welfare reform law of 1996. This was an illegal move, and… Read More
Obama’s Gutting of Welfare Reform Is Illegal
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a General Counsel and legal staff to ensure that the agency’s actions are lawful. Did they… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama’s Imperial Presidency Guts Welfare Reform
The imperial Presidency has overturned Congress and the law again. Not content to stop at rewriting immigration policy, education policy and energy policy, yesterday, President… Read More
Obama Guts Welfare Reform
Today, the Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an official policy directive rewriting the welfare reform law of 1996. The new policy… Read More
How to Reform Food Stamps—and Improve the Farm Bill
The farm bill is currently making its way through the Senate amidst heated debate. But don’t let the title fool you. Nearly 80 percent—of the… Read More
A Farm Bill That’s Not About Farming
Were we directed from Washingtonwhen to sow, when to reap, we should soon want bread. — Thomas Jefferson The federal government hasn’t stuck its nose into when to… Read More
The Difference Between a Courageous Budget and a Dangerous One
Despite all the talk of “austerity,” little has been done to stem the tide of the United States’ ever growing debt. The little that has… Read More
Protect America: Address the Entitlement Problem Now
“Provide for common defense” is a core constitutional obligation of the federal government. Yet entitlement spending is putting unsustainable pressure on the defense budget. In… Read More
Running & Responsibility: How Former Addicts Are Overcoming
If you told recovering alcoholic and drug addict Hermon Blount a year ago that he’d soon be getting up 3 or 4 days a week… Read More
“I’m from the Government, and I’m Here to Make You Happy”
Did you know that President Obama’s “Yes, We Can” Administration has been funding a research project to invent a composite index that measures happiness? Yes,… Read More
Reforming the Fastest Growing Government Welfare Program
The House of Representatives is poised to pass a budget reconciliation measure that would tackle increased spending in the food stamps program (or, as it’s… Read More
HHS Investigating Welfare Spending at Casinos, Liquor Stores, Strip Clubs
The Administration for Children and Families, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, is investigating whether, and how, federal welfare funds have… Read More
