Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill isn’t just a modern assault on SNAP and Medicaid — it’s the revival of a 150-year-old ...

Yet many welfare states have been built the world over without an ideology of national security following in their wake.

Medicaid enrolls some 83 million Americans, nearly six times as many as AFDC did in 1996.

The first televised presidential debate, in 1960, began with both candidates sitting before approaching their respective podiums. Nixon was memorably not telegenic: sweaty and uncomfortable. On ...

The early decades of the 20th century saw the advent, in response, of federal regulatory agencies, central banking, a government-enabled mass union movement, and a modern welfare state.

Welfare is something we should be striving towards, not conceding to the right as an ill, or to the careerist as a punctuation mark in their life story of pulling up the ladder behind them. Some words ...

The Class Struggle and Welfare: Social Policy under Capitalism David Matthews, Monthly Review Press, £23.99. A FULL Marx feature in this paper examined the “social wage” — the collective provision of ...