In Italy, the youth jobless rate is nudging 40 percent, a record high in post-war history. Demographer Stefano Rosina says the Italian welfare system has always been skewed toward the middle-aged and elderly, leaving Italian youths with no political or ...

Bay State Republicans — faced with a Senate budget gutted of welfare reforms — are pushing a slew of amendments to beef up protections inside the state's embattled Department of Transitional Assistance, ranging from adding photo IDs to EBT cards to ...

The SenateJudiciary Committee voted Monday to allow illegal immigrants who get legal status to begin collecting tax-welfare payments, as the panel spent a fourth day working through amendments to the massive immigration bill and party-line splits began ...

MATTAWAN, MI – Scientific testing company MPI Research was fined $6,911 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday for violations of the U.S. Animal Welfare Act. The violations were cited during 2011 and 2012. But the animal rights group that ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers will be voting on whether to require some welfare recipients to take drug tests. The Texas House is scheduled to vote on the measure on Tuesday afternoon. Senate Bill 11 would require people enrolled in the ...

MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- As the clock struck midnight, dozens of bills died on the final night of the legislative session. Among the casualties was a bill by Rep. Patricia Todd, D-Birmingham, that would protect non-profit spay/neuter clinics from state ...and more »

The Department of Public Welfare "has serious concerns regarding several assumptions included in the report," the department's acting secretary, Beverly Mackereth, wrote in a letter to the director of the state's Independent Fiscal Office, estimating ...

What are “social welfare” organizations? The tax code defines them as “civic leagues or organizations not organized for profit but operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare.” Note the word “exclusively.” Over the years, the I.R.S. has ...

During its past four fiscal years, the Internal Revenue Service has formally denied the applications of just 60 organizations seeking recognition under Section 501(c)(4) of the U.S. tax code as “social welfare” groups. In the same period, the agency ...and more »

Lawmakers want to field-test a drug screening program next year for welfare recipients, cut off cash aid to families whose children miss too much school and require recipients who won more than $600 in the Michigan Lottery during the past decade to ...and more »