Ariela Reynoso spends many nights scrolling on LinkedIn, browsing job postings that dangle the prospect of a better life for her and her 4-year-old son. Then she snaps back to reality. The East Boston ...

Supplemental Security Income benefits have not been updated in years. Several rule changes to take effect in September are aimed at improving access to benefits and increase payment amounts. The ...

Public assistance, commonly called welfare, and the SNAP program, formerly known as food stamps, are two lifelines that millions of American households depend on to stave off hunger and make ends meet ...

Several federal safety net programs launched in the 1960s and 1970s led to lower rates of adult poverty, increases in educational attainment, and lower rates of public assistance receipt thirty years ...

With the cost of living rising in many parts of the country, state and local governments are spending billions of dollars on public welfare. The total spending on public welfare — which includes "cash ...

Around the country, human services agencies are modernizing IT systems to speed the delivery of public assistance, a resource even more critical amid the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic fallout. Medicaid ...