Topic: TANF

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 07: Ranking Member Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) speaks during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing about the Trump Administration's decision to freeze $10 billion in child care funds for families with low incomes in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York at the U.S. Capitol on January 07, 2026 in Washington, DC. Federal prosecutors filed charges against dozens of people in Minnesota, many from the area's Somali community, with stealing upwards of billions of taxpayer dollars through fraudulent social services schemes. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Dems respond to childcare fund freezes

Jelinda Montes
Brett Farve (Rob Kim/Getty Images)

What I want Favre to know about poverty

D. Watkins
Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Oxford University Press)

Welfare fraud is actually rare

Mark Robert Rank, Lawrence M. Eppard, Heather E. Bullock
(AP/Erik Schelzig)

Beyond the "work requirements" sham

Amanda Marcotte
Paul LePage (AP/Robert F. Bukaty)

GOP's new plot against welfare

Amanda Marcotte
President Bill Cllinton signs the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act into law, August 22, 1996. (Reuters/Stephen Jaffe)

Welfare as we know it now

Laura Hussey - The Conversation
FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2016, file photo, Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat leaves a House Republican leadership meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Republicans are laying the groundwork for a fresh effort to overhaul the nation's food stamp program during Donald Trump’s presidency, with the possibility of new work and eligibility requirements for millions of Americans. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File) (AP)

rose's story

Kristin Seefeldt - The Conversation
(AP/Allen Breed)

The bigotry of welfare cuts

Sanford Schram - The Conversation
(Shutterstock/Salon)

Abortion foes accused of scam

Amanda Marcotte
FILE - In this Tuesday, April 19, 2016, file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin, speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington. Ryan said Monday, May 9, 2016, that he'd step down as co-chairman of the Republican National Convention if presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump asked him to. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) (AP)

GOP's poverty proposal

Simon Maloy
Paul Ryan (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Ryan's welfare myth demolished

Simon Maloy
(Reuters/Carlos Barria)

Zaid Jilani - Alternet
(AP/Lefteris Pitarakis/Charlie Riedel)

GOP's vile anti-poor crusade

Joan Walsh
Scott Walker (Jeffrey Malet, maletphoto.com)

GOP plot to destroy the poor

Heather Digby Parton
Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Joshua Roberts/AP/Charles Dharapak)

Doug Henwood's "stink bomb"

Elias Isquith
Paul Ryan (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

Ryan's poverty sham widens

Simon Maloy
Salon logo

Unconstitutional

Elias Isquith
A mourner holds an obituary showing a picture of 19-year-old shooting victim Renisha McBride during her funeral service in Detroit, Michigan November 8, 2013. (Reuters/Joshua Lott)

Don't ask for help while black

Brittney Cooper
(Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

McDonald's urges food stamps

Josh Eidelson
(AP/John Minchillo)

Fast food giants vs. America

Josh Eidelson
(Reuters/Jason Reed)

The shutdown's human cost

Elias Isquith