The suspension of the federal welfare program is expected to impact more than 350,000 Mississippians by the weekend unless agreement is reached in the U.S. Senate.

The recent unveiling of new federal welfare rules on July 10 marks a significant shift in the landscape of public assistance in the United States. These changes, which reinterpret the 1996 Personal ...

Idaho has begun distributing partial payments of federal food assistance for low-income residents, while awaiting for federal ...

SSI is a federal welfare program that really has nothing to do with Social Security, other than the fact that it is managed by the Social Security Administration. Juanmonino / Getty Images I can tell ...

The City of Clovis announced the launch of a new initiative “designed to increase animal welfare, reduce euthanasia numbers ...

A group of GOP senators is unveiling new legislation to automatically deport and potentially permanently ban the entry of illegal immigrants who are caught on welfare or other federal benefits ...

While the future of many government programs have been put into question in Washington, federal funds are still coming to the Head Start programs of Northeastern Pennsylvania. U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan ...

Amid the ongoing government shutdown, restaurants, food banks, and various organizations are stepping in to help feed ...

Idaho has submitted a proposal for the federal Rural Health Transformation Program, which aims to secure $1 billion for ...

As the federal government shutdown stretches into a second month, working poor parents suddenly have no child care for their ...