President Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services today rolled back a 2012 Obama directive weakening the work requirements for welfare reform. Although literally no one will notice a ...

The Romney campaign has hit President Barack Obama hard this week for his administration's decision to grant waivers to states that want more flexibility in experimenting with their welfare programs.

The welfare controversy involves a memorandum the Obama administration’s Health and Human Service Department sent to the states back in July regarding the program’s work requirements: Here’s what ...

It might seem weird that Newt Gingrich admitted on CNN that there's "no proof" that President Obama gutted welfare reform (as a Romney ad claimed) especially since it was Gingrich himself who ...

DES MOINES—For the second day in a row, Mitt Romney attacked President Barack Obama on welfare reform, accusing his Democratic opponent of ditching a work requirement for those receiving government ...

WASHINGTON — Welfare is causing a ruckus in the presidential campaign. But the program is a shadow of its old self from the 1970s, when Ronald Reagan used the image of "welfare queens" to assail ...

In his Chicago Tribune column, Clarence Page argues that Mitt Romney’s assault on President Obama’s welfare-reform policy actually gets in the way of putting its recipients to work. Suggested Reading ...