any welfare program naturally operates as a welfare trap. Staying in such welfare programs, languishing in dependence, enrollees miss an incalculable amount of opportunity to improve their lives.

It would make marriage more accessible, freeing couples from the trap of our nation’s ill-designed welfare policies that make it difficult to choose the strongest and most stable form of family ...

Tracy Martin of Springfield, Ill., used to be the kind of welfare-recipient-turned-productive-worker President Clinton liked to trot out for reporters. Martin “played by the rules,” the ...

Does welfare lock the poor into permanent dependency on government? Does it encourage teens to have babies out of wedlock, fathers to desert their families and recipients to avoid low-paying jobs?

Over the past decade, too many of our fellow citizens have fallen deeper into the welfare trap, ensnared by government policies that pay people to not work. Many of these new enrollees are able ...

Gianno Caldwell will testify Tuesday at the House Subcommittee on Work and Welfare field hearing ... the so-called “Great Society” became a trap for millions of Americans.

And too often we don’t even ask them to. For many, welfare is no longer a lifeline to self-sufficiency but a lifelong trap of dependency. We are having trouble retrieving the article content.