Bernie Sanders wants to make Amazon and other corporations cover the cost of public benefits for their low-paid workers. Why not reform the Earned Income Tax Credit instead?

An administration plan to punish legal residents who use public benefits is part of an ugly history of racializing welfare recipients in America.

How the Republican Party’s proposals to reform the food stamp program will keep people down

Turns out Republicans care more about slashing welfare than they do about slashing the deficit.

Bill Clinton already ended welfare as we knew it. So what, exactly, are Republicans after now?

Donald Trump's first year in office can best be seen as an all-out assault by the rich against the rest.

How Bill Clinton set the stage for the GOP's war on the poor.

New poverty data from the Census Bureau reveals the extent of the damage that Trump and Paul Ryan could do to America’s neediest communities.

A provision in the Senate's bill gives states near-carte blanche to spend health care money on whatever they want.

Yascha Mounk's new book charts the rise of an approach that punishes the poor.

American welfare policy historically targeted poor black families.

By proposing robust welfare reforms, Sanders could have hit Hillary Clinton where she is most vulnerable.

The most progressive candidate in the Democratic primary race has been notably quiet about the issue. How come?