Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the Justice Department to prioritize animal welfare enforcement, in a move she said will entail stepping up prosecutions and even doling out grants to animal welfare ...

Sen. Nikki Torres, in a phone interview, said the reports can reveal patterns of where the state’s child welfare system is ...

The government provides at least one means-tested, welfare-type program to roughly one out of every five Americans (unless you count Social Security, in which case the number goes up considerably). In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. THE CLAIM: The majority of people on welfare assistance are Black. “Welfare queens” exist and they constantly take advantage of ...

Historically, marriage has played a critical role in the raising of children. In most cases, the economic benefits of marriage are substantial. Marriage among families with children is an extremely ...

The ponies were found in a "hazardous environment", with no grazing or feed, according to the RSPCA.

Over on Alternet Joshua Holland got very het up about the great new right wing lie. This all has relevance today as David Brooks has been using the same sorts of figures to show that the US does in ...

A decade ago, Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman admonished the Wall Street Journal for its idée fixe on open-border immigration policy. "It's just obvious you can't have free immigration ...