Two of the weightiest questions in contemporary social ethics are: What is government’s legitimate role in welfare work? How ought the Christian Church to relate itself to the welfare role of ...

Journal Editorial Report: Will cooler heads prevail in November? The crisis of the welfare state—fiscally unaffordable but politically unreformable—afflicts nearly every 21st-century Western democracy ...

Since the 1960s, the U.S. welfare state has grown to cover not just the poor but, increasingly, the middle class. When there is a temporary economic hardship, it tends to be used as an excuse for a ...

IMF says the enormous costs of European rearmament, the consequences of the international trade war and demands made by banks ...

Journal Editorial Report: Blue states look for new ways to wring out more taxes from their wealthiest residents. No, we don’t mean some racial or sexual crudity. Those obstacles in politics were ...

A recent federal policy brief on North Carolina’s past child welfare reform efforts didn’t mince words: “Children in North Carolina suffer the consequences of an inadequate child welfare system.” But ...

Europe’s generous welfare states are coming under increasing strain as weak economic growth collides with rising demands on government budgets, particularly from aging populations. Donald Trump’s ...

Brett Favre earned nearly $140 million as a star NFL quarterback over two decades and millions more in product endorsements. But that didn’t stop the state of Mississippi from paying Favre $1.1 ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) announced on Tuesday, July 22, three contracts have been awarded for the department’s new Comprehensive Child Welfare ...

A former top state official in Mississippi pleaded guilty Thursday to state and federal charges in connection to an embezzlement scheme that auditors say misused millions of welfare dollars, including ...