Category: welfare

An American Tradition: Chronic Anti-Poverty Waste Via the Federal-to-Local Distribution Pipeline

For six years, beginning in 2014, the accounting firm for the Southeast Alabama Community Action Partnership warned administrators that the organization was doing a poor job of managing the millions of dollars in taxpayer money it received annually for its poverty-reduction work, including home energy assistance and foster grandparenting. In 2018, a longtime employee filed a federal complaint alleging…


Black Communities Succeed When They Have a Purpose in Life, Not Welfare: Gun Rights Activist

To truly help people in black communities to succeed in life is to teach them how to find purpose in life and to defend that purpose, said Maj Toure, founder of the 2nd Amendment organization Black Guns Matter. Toure teaches people at the Solutionary Center in Philadelphia how they can defend themselves, but he argues…


Ep. 54: Could Student Loan Forgiveness Become Welfare for the Rich? | The Larry Elder Show

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced a sweeping effort to forgive up to $20,000 of federal student loan debt for Pell Grant recipients, and up to $10,000 for other qualifying borrowers. Biden also extended the federal student loan payment pause through Dec. 31. According to an analysis of Biden’s plan by the University of Pennsylvania…


Nessel Backs Change to Trump-era Immigration Policy

Michigan’s Attorney General Dana Nessel this week announced her support for a proposed change in a 2019 federal policy that made it harder for immigrants on welfare to obtain Legal Permanent Residency (LPR) in the United States. On the threshold of what is expected to be a record-setting influx of migrants entering the country by…


California State Lawmaker Proposes Universal Basic Income Test Program for Poor College Students

A California state lawmaker wants the government to give $500 a month to impoverished college students as a test for a controversial kind of social program known as universal basic income (UBI). Legislation that would create the program may be introduced later this month by Democrat Dave Cortese, a state senator who represents part of…


The Most Dangerous Virus Today Is Runaway Government Spending

Commentary When I came to Washington, D.C., in 1985, Ronald Reagan was president. I was working for the Reagan budget office. We did something we weren’t very proud of at the time. We introduced the first $1 trillion budget in American history, which was unthinkable. One trillion dollars. There are 12 zeroes in a trillion….


Wife of Missing Girl’s Father Charged With Welfare Fraud

CONCORD, N.H.—The wife of a man whose daughter went missing in 2019 has been charged with welfare fraud for collecting food stamps in her name, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office said Thursday. Kayla Montgomery, 31, of Manchester, has been charged one with one count of welfare fraud for obtaining $1,500 in food stamps from…


COVID Welfare, Health, Fears Push Americans Away From Work, Expert Says

Millions of Americans have stopped working—at least on paper—over the past two years. They are only slowly trickling back into the labor force, despite plentiful job opportunities. Multiple factors are causing this, including fear of the COVID-19 disease and self-reported health issues. Close examination of available data, however, reveals the most prominent factor is that…


COVID-19 Welfare, Health, Fears Push Americans Away From Work, Expert Says

Millions of Americans have stopped working—at least on paper—over the past two years. They are only slowly trickling back into the labor force, despite plentiful job opportunities. Multiple factors are causing this, including fear of the COVID-19 disease and self-reported health issues. Close examination of available data, however, reveals the most prominent factor is that…


House Progressives Detach From Reality

Commentary Rep. Cori Bush, a Democrat left-wing “squad” member in the House, attacked Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin for his opposition to the multitrillion-dollar Build Back Better Act. Manchin is “anti-Black, anti-child, anti-woman, and anti-immigrant,” according to Bush because of his opposition to this megaspending welfare bill. If Bush wants to identify politicians hurting blacks, children,…