It is generally argued that the U.S. has a small social welfare system compared to other rich nations and far more poverty ... is equally far from the images of stark deprivation purveyed by ...

(Again, Social Security and Medicare are not included in the totals.) Today, government spends 16 times more, adjusting for inflation, on means-tested welfare or anti-poverty programs than it did ...

Attacks on social programs portrayed poverty as a moral failure and exploited racist stereotypes to mischaracterize social welfare as a magnet for criminal, failed and indolent Americans.

But it is also true that child poverty rates for black children remain ... In a recent book, I examine social welfare policy developments in the U.S. over a 50-year period from the New Deal ...

More than a quarter of the people living in poverty ... welfare and other cash benefits, or child-care assistance, according to a new Urban Institute analysis examining the reach of the social ...

The gradual austerity leaders imposed on social welfare and education programmes ... especially for Americans living in poverty, writes Collins[Getty Images/Mark Wilson] The best days of the ...