It's been a month since the Obama administration released its directive from Health and Human Services (HHS) to gut work requirements from welfare - and it's created no small stir. Facing significant ...

Clinton reluctantly signed the final “workfare” measure into law. Fast forward to July 12, when the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an “information ...

The editorial from Aufheben #21, which is available in print now, discussing the current workfare schemes and the struggle against them. The storm of public outrage expressed against workfare schemes ...

In Washington, Republican lawmakers are insisting that any deal with the Biden administration to raise the federal debt ceiling be accompanied by stricter work requirements for such programs as cash ...

New state programs that require able-bodied recipients of food stamps to look for jobs generally offer little training to help them acquire skills, according to a survey of the states` plans. A dozen ...

A new debate on welfare issues, based on new premises, is clearly emerging. Conservatives and liberals seem to have come to a common ground: that the increase in families headed by one person causes ...

Loïc Wacquant has always been somewhat unusual. A well-known ethnographer and award-winning social theorist, he is a white Frenchman who has been teaching race relations at the University of ...

THE WORKFARE AGREEMENT between between Mayor Giuliani and municipal unions should put to rest petty efforts to derail the most successful welfare-to-work program in the nation. The nine-point ...