Americans have heard plenty about how, effective November 1, the federal government shutdown suspended regular food stamp payments to 42 million individuals. Food stamps are important welfare benefits ...

Gov. Kevin Stitt's executive order seeks to reform Oklahoma's welfare programs by targeting fraud and outdated rules, while ...

The U.S. welfare system is broken, and the Minnesota scandal is a blaring warning to that reality. The failure of political leaders on many fronts bears some of the blame. But the main culprit is the ...

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Fall 2025 Magazine. You can subscribe here. When he ran for president, Bill Clinton promised to “end welfare as we know it.” In 1996, Clinton signed ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday offered the Trump administration assistance with identifying fraud in taxpayer-funded ...