MILAN-The evolution of Chinese luxury furniture has been in a deep slumber since the dawn of the socialist market economy, but a cultural awakening is fueling a design renaissance. After opening its ...

In the end, America got a warfare state but not a welfare state. As his book concludes, the verdict becomes even harsher.

Welfare programs are structured poorly and punish people for working to climb out of poverty. An estimated 710,000 ...

After woeful federal and state assessments of problems with social services in NC, child welfare reforms may put teeth into state oversight.

States are projected to spend close to 2% of their combined gross state domestic product (GSDP) or Rs 6.4 lakh crore ($76.67 billion) on social welfare schemes in the current fiscal year, and this ...

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.

Welfare reform has been postponed, but it isn’t going away Editorial: Labour’s overhaul of the benefits system failed because it was clearly a raid by the Treasury looking for savings at speed.

One person involved in drawing up these reforms said the welfare state was to Labour MPs what Europe was to Conservative MPs.

A line stretched around the block to honor State Representative Melissa Hortman, her husband and their dog, who were killed in an attack that officials have called a political assassination.

A bill to cut the cost of Britain’s social welfare system passed a hurdle in Parliament on Tuesday, but only after Prime Minister Keir Starmer made significant concessions.

The government's argument is that it is exactly because of the importance of the welfare state that these measures are necessary — to ensure it is affordable and retains public support in the ...

Hortman will become the first woman and one of 20 Minnesotans to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda prior to burial. Their golden retriever, Gilbert, who was euthanized due to gunshot wounds ...