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Kansas Required Work for Food Stamps. Here’s What Happened.

Published April 26, 2016

Rachel Sheffield / Elmore Wallace / April 25, 2016/ at The Daily Signal Abraham Lincoln once said, “No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.” Over the past several years, the number of Americans on food stamps has soared. In particular, […]

A Preacher Turned Lawmaker and His New Campaign to Win the Old War on Poverty

Published April 22, 2016

Philip Wegmann / April 20, 2016 / The Daily Signal Greensboro, N.C.—Mark Walker spent his childhood in and out of prison. He wasn’t an inmate, but the chaplain’s son at one of Alabama’s minimum-security state prisons, Berrydale Forestry Camp. And starting in elementary school, he followed his father while he made the rounds offering a […]

Improved Economy Means 500k Could Lose Food Stamps

Published April 11, 2016

Improved Economy Means 500k Could Lose Food Stamps Hundreds of thousands of food stamp recipients are expected to lose their benefits in April as work requirements steadily go back into effect in 22 states. The food stamp program has included work requirements since 1996, but many of these were waived in response to the great […]

More States Are Requiring Work Requirements for Food Stamps

Published April 9, 2016

By Elisabeth Zenger / Rachel Sheffield / April 08, 2016 / The Daily Signal Newspaper headlines have been bemoaning that more states will now have to require adults on food stamps—who are able-bodied and without dependents—to work. Since 2009, nearly all states have been able to waive the modest food stamp work requirement. But these […]

Federally Run Schools for Native American Children Are Worst in America.

Published April 5, 2016

Lindsey Burke / Jacob Thackston / The Daily Signal Congress could soon find itself with a chance to radically improve the lives of thousands of children currently trapped in crumbling and failing schools now that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has proposed the Native American Educational Opportunity Act. The proposal would enable children attending Bureau […]

Florida Man Tries To Buy $60,000 BMW SUV With Food Stamps

Published April 5, 2016

The farcical American welfare-state has a new posterchild. Meet Florida-resident Nicholas Jackson, who tried to purchase a brand new $60,000 BMW X-6 SUV with his Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card… That’s not what Food Stamps are for!! But, as New York Daily News’ Sasha Goldstein explains, after failing to use his us-taxpayer-funded credit card to […]

Liberal Policies are Destroying Black Families

Published April 2, 2016

Crystal Wright / @GOPBlackChick / March 29, 2016/ The Daily Signal This piece has been adapted from Crystal Wright’s new book: “Con Job: How Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering, and Racial Division.” It’s well known how in 1965 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, assistant secretary of labor to Democrat President Johnson, warned that the black […]

DC Residents In Revolt Over Mayor’s Plan To Put Homeless In $100,000 Units Next Door

Published March 21, 2016

DC Residents In Revolt Over Mayor’s Plan To Put Homeless In $100,000 Units Next Door An initiative to open eight new homeless shelters in every area of Washington, D.C., is drawing intense backlash from angered citizens questioning the mayor’s unilateral action on the planned reform. “Democracy is messy, but we decided on it for a […]

Social Security Administration Beneficiaries Top 60,000,000

Published March 18, 2016

(CNSNews.com) – The number of people receiving benefits from the Social Security Administration topped 60,000,000 for the first time at the beginning of 2016. In December 2015, according to data published by the Office of the Chief Actuary of Social Security, the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds paid benefits to 59,963,425 […]

Lawmakers: Billions Intended for U.S. Treasury for Insurers Illegally Diverted

Published February 26, 2016

Melissa Quinn / @MelissaQuinn97 / February 24, 2016 / The Daily Signal Republicans on Capitol Hill are questioning the legality of a move by the Obama administration to give billions to insurers under a program implemented under Obamacare that they say is equal to an insurer bailout. At issue for lawmakers on the House Energy […]

Maine Required Childless Adults to Work to Get Food Stamps. Here’s What Happened.

Published February 10, 2016

Robert Rector / Rachel Sheffield / @RachelSheffiel2 / February 08, 2016 / The Daily Signal One trillion dollars—that’s how much the government spent last year on means-tested welfare aid, providing cash, food, housing, medical care, and social services to poor and low-income individuals. The food stamp program is the nation’s second largest welfare program. The […]

American Perspectives on Welfare and Poverty

Published February 4, 2016

By Mark Schreiber and Elizabeth Fender Welfare Should Be Tied to Work Americans are a generous people who want to help their neighbors. But they also expect their neighbors to do what they can to help themselves. The vast majority of Americans (89%) agree that able-bodied adults who receive welfare assistance from the government should […]

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