The economist is ripping Republican’s “cruel” efforts to rein in out-of-control Medicaid spending, even though he himself participated in one of the biggest welfare reforms of our lifetime.

Well, if anyone assumed that summer of 2025 would be a slack season for federal policy, consider again. The Trump administration’s latest reinterpretation of the 1996 welfare reform law has triggered ...

Public welfare spending includes cash assistance payments, vendor payments, and other uncategorized payments administered by state and local governments. Here are the states spending the most on ...