A blunt claim is shaking a long-settled story about Social Security: that it is ...

The United States can save money on welfare and even increase its benefits by making simple changes to welfare programs. We looked at federal spending data from the past few years to see how much the ...

States are now in the process of preparing to implement parts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which achieved some of the most significant pro-work reforms to America’s social welfare system in ...

With the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, the United States embarked on a major policy change to its social welfare and safety net ...

Stacey Barker is a Professor, Department Chair and Program Director for the BSW program at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, MA. Her research interests center around the integration of spirituality ...

Republicans and Democrats alike decry the lack of oversight for America’s famous antipoverty experiment. ‘Fraud by design.’ ...

A Master of Social Work (MSW) from Calvin equips you to address complex social issues, empower communities, and enact meaningful change. Our program is guided by the core values of social justice and ...

Many scholars, politicians, and citizens across the globe examine welfare conditionality and its effects on its people and economies. Understanding the outcomes of the programs implemented to approach ...

The March 9 LNP | LancasterOnline letter “Possible cuts to Medicaid would conflict with what’s preached in the Gospels” struck my sense of social justice. The letter writer cited the Book of Matthew, ...

As a PhD candidate in the University at Buffalo School of Social Work, Ogechi Kalu is studying how intimate partner violence affects children in her native Nigeria, with the goal of developing ...

The program provides stipends to social work students who commit to working in under-resourced communities across the state.