There are two key reasons why it is critical there be a work requirement before able-bodied individuals receive welfare: (1) It discourages those who can find a job from going on welfare and consuming ...

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 ...

Post columnists Greg Sindelar and Daniel J. Erspamer believe Congress should empower states to integrate workforce development and the safety net. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Congress has a ...

If someone asked you to name a US President who also was a longtime defender of work requirements for welfare benefits, whom might you guess? Ronald Reagan? Donald Trump? George W. Bush? These are ...

“Get a job!” That sums up our current cash welfare system in a nutshell. Ever since so-called welfare reform in the 1990s, the system has been based on the idea that welfare recipients must be doing ...

Just as Republicans in Congress are moving to beef up work requirements for people who receive welfare, California lawmakers are moving to do the opposite. Included in a recent state Assembly budget ...

Amid negotiations over lifting the nation’s debt limit, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., offered his take on the merits of tying federal safety net assistance programs to work requirements.

One of the longtime dividing lines between conservatives and liberals or progressives is whether those receiving welfare benefits should be required to work. Conservatives see the requirement as a way ...

Fox News commentator and political analyst Gianno Caldwell will testify Tuesday at the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Work and Welfare field hearing, “The Dignity of Work: Lifting ...

Work improves lives. We in the Midwest know this is true. In the last few decades, the Midwest has been a case study in the effectiveness of work requirements in welfare to create opportunity, ...

Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. Just as Republicans in Congress are moving to beef up ...