Seventy-six people, including actor Noah Wyle, were arrested Monday at a demonstration protesting cuts in Medicaid proposed by the House Republican leadership, authorities said.
The mother of a South African girl seen gang-raped in a cellphone video slammed authorities for neglecting to protect her mentally disabled daughter when she was raped before.
A Michigan woman who won a million-dollar lottery but continued to receive welfare benefits is now charged with fraud, the attorney general said Tuesday.
updated: Wed Apr 18 2012 06:29:00
A lottery winner in Michigan is charged with fraud for collecting food stamps after winning one million dollars.
Suppose the Supreme Court does rule that the health care mandate is unconstitutional? What happens then?
updated: Tue Feb 07 2012 18:20:00
CNN contributor LZ Granderson urges Democrats to avoid partisan bickering and not fight a sensible bill.
I believe it was the great American philosopher Kenny Rogers, who, while meditating on the nuances of Darwinism, gave the world this piece of advice:
If welfare recipients want to dole out the dollar bills at a strip club, they'd better make sure it's not government money ... at least if a bill in Congress becomes law.
Strikes by trade unions in Belgium disrupted travel Monday on the Eurostar and Thalys international train lines, the companies announced, as European leaders gathered in the capital Brussels for an informal summit.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum criticized President Barack Obama, saying he has cut benefits for the country's veterans while leaving social welfare programs untouched, during Thursday night's CNN presidential debate in South Carolina.
The death toll from a tropical storm that pummeled the Philippines rose to at least 447 on Sunday, according to the national chairman of the Philippine Red Cross.
November is National Adoption Awareness Month in the U.S. and in many countries around the world. We celebrate every child's right to grow up in a loving, permanent family where they can live their lives with dignity.
As stimulus funds dry up, cash-strapped states are facing steep rises in Medicaid spending, forcing them to slash services and trim costs.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a controversial Florida law requiring all welfare applicants to be drug-tested.
The Supreme Court opened its new term Monday with a lively oral argument dealing with whether private plaintiffs can sue the states over cuts to the popular Medicaid health program.
America's poverty rate is now the worst since 1993, according to a shocking report last week from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Former President Bill Clinton could teach the Republican Party a thing or two about effective campaign strategy.
The U.S. government will foot the bill for half of all health care costs in the United States by 2020, according to a government report released Thursday.
Although the volatile politics of Kyrgyzstan rarely garner headlines in the U.S., more than five dozen American families are keeping close tabs on developments here. Each wants to adopt a young orphan from this small republic in Central Asia. For three years now, they've watched from places like Atlanta, Georgia, and Stockton, California, as Kyrgyzstan has undergone a violent revolution, a deadly outbreak of ethnic conflict, and a rocky transition to democracy.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Sunday defended recent legislation that requires adults applying for welfare assistance to undergo drug screenings, saying the law provides "personal accountability."
updated: Sun Jun 05 2011 18:03:00
Gov. Rick Scott defends recent legislation that requires adults applying for welfare assistance to take a drug test.
The Obama administration is attempting to block Indiana from enforcing a new law that would keep low-income women from using federal Medicaid benefits to receive any kind of reproductive medical care from Planned Parenthood.
Strapped states are scrambling to address Medicaid's ballooning costs before the federal government cuts back a critical source of funding this week.
You can't turn on the news these days without hearing about our budget crisis. We've also been told, over and over, that it's a problem with spending -- we're doing too much of it.
The Obama administration is giving states more flexibility in implementing the health care reform law, but that won't help governors plug one of their biggest immediate budget problems: Runaway Medicaid costs.
updated: Mon Dec 27 2010 13:38:00
With the help of the "Magic Wall," CNN's John King and panel members review memorable moments of the past year.
States will have to dig deeper into their already empty coffers next year in order to pay for rising Medicaid costs.
updated: Tue Sep 07 2010 09:47:00
CNN's Anderson Cooper and a political panel discuss the grim numbers Democrats face heading into the midterm elections.
Eight weeks to Election Day, and still no sign of an updated "Contract with America," the famous Republican campaign manifesto of 1994.
A growing number of jobless Americans are maxing out their unemployment benefits. There are a handful of other lifeline benefits that the unemployed may qualify for.
Lawmakers come back to work Monday facing a tough decision: Whether it's more important to spend money to keep the economic recovery going or to watch their pennies.
There's at least one stimulus program that's creating jobs and winning praise from both sides of the political aisle.
Young children in Massachusetts will lose state-funded mental health services. Welfare recipients will see their employment and training programs slashed. And homeless families will lose nearly all their state assistance to move into more permanent housing.
The weather may be getting hot, but there's a lot of freezing going on in Europe.
To be clear, we're talking about people here who don't qualify for Medicaid or COBRA. If this is you, you may need to buy insurance in the private marketplace.
India has criticized the release from house arrest of the leader of a Pakistani group linked to the Mumbai terror attacks.
Massachusetts state workers and retirees face higher deductibles and co-pays on their health insurance.
updated: Fri Jan 23 2009 10:50:00
CNN's Charles Hodson reports on the economic advice President Obama is receiving from around the world.
As bad economic numbers fill the headlines day after day, Americans want to believe that better times are ahead. They want jobs, health care for the uninsured, accountability in business and other changes. And President Obama promised on the campaign trail that he would increase regulation of the financial industry, enable people to get affordable health care and put people back to work.
Even the dead are not immune to the credit squeeze, as many funeral directors, citing liquidity problems, leave bodies unburied
A review of Medicare payments to suppliers of wheelchairs, oxygen machines and other medical equipment showed nearly three in 10 were made in error -- about four times the rate previously cited by the federal government, investigators said Monday
Madame Chow recalls the "good life" in mainland China with her husband and two sons. "I was really happy there," Chow said.
The New York City Mayor and California's Governor are doing the things that gridlocked Washington won't
What kind of challenge does immigration reform pose for President Bush? Everybody favors better border security. The issue is what to do about the millions of illegal immigrants already in the United States.
German unemployment fell a seasonally-adjusted 0.2 percent in October to 11 percent, the government's labor office reported Wednesday, crediting recent welfare reform.
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has said he will not take part in the next German coalition government, expected to be led by conservative Angela Merkel as chancellor.
The Senate was up to its old tricks Monday evening.
Germany's highest court has ruled that early elections can go ahead as planned on September 18, rejecting complaints against the early vote from two lawmakers.
Germany's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell for a fourth straight month in July, by one-tenth of a percent to 11.6 percent -- a decrease due in part to a shrinking number of Germans seeking work, the Labor Office said.
The number of unemployed in Germany fell slightly in March, under the 5.2 million mark, though the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 12 percent, the German government reported Thursday.
In early October, Professor Ralph Whitehead of the University of Massachusetts, a good Democrat and an even better thinker, lamented what he saw as the runaway secularization of the 2004 Democratic Party.
The Department of Health and Human Services has launched an internal investigation to see whether a senior government staffer was pressured to withhold information from Congress about the true cost of the Medicare prescription drug bill.
President Bush on Friday announced he will nominate FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan to head the agency that oversees the Medicare and Medicaid programs, including the implementation of the new prescription drug benefit, administration sources told CNN.
Politicians are notorious for grabbing credit when they don't deserve it. Ronald Reagan said he was responsible for the economic growth of 1983 and 1984, even though the proximate cause was the dep...
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--Complete powers of attorney. You'll need two: a durable power of attorney to appoint a friend or relative to handle your financial affairs if you become incapacitated and a health-care power of a...
The average price of a Manhattan apartment south of Harlem has hit more than $850,000--at a time when two-fifths of New York City's residents make $20,000 or less a year. In Silicon Valley teachers...
With Washington nearing a war footing, with domestic issues in retreat, with Bill Clinton's sway over the capital fading, and with Republicans continuing to hold power in Congress, big administrati...
No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton By Christopher Hitchens Verso, 160 pages
Listen up, Republicans. It's time to change the subject. Trying to drive Clinton from office ended up driving people away from the GOP. What you need now is less Cotton Mather and more Ronald Reaga...
Congress passed an important bill in October regarding publicly subsidized housing for the poor. You'll remember this, of course, from the banner headlines, heated debates on radio call-in shows, a...
If you run your own business--even from home--the new tax law can leave a lot of extra cash in your pocket over the years ahead. Although navigating the maze of these rather complicated regulations...
On the surface, the Wuhan Iron & Steel Co. looks like a typical Chinese state enterprise. A sprawling, 6.5-square-mile compound located at the end of Metallurgical Avenue, the steelworks has a giga...
Lost in the budget brawl over Medicare comes news that farm subsidies, America's oldest, most protected welfare program, might finally be phased out. Or not.
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If we have learned anything from the 30 years of frustration since we declared war on poverty, it should be this: You can't fix the problem if you don't understand it. Strategies founded on oversim...
The americans whose upraised hands you see on pages 100 and 101 gathered on a cold, sunny Saturday in February for a revival meeting of sorts, though their fervor was not religious. These mostly wh...
The battles raging in Washington since Newt Gingrich became Speaker of the House have been epic in their ferocity. But what is the war really about?
A lot of the angry Californians who helped pass Proposition 187--to deny costly welfare, health care and public education to undocumented aliens--probably had someone like Hilda Pacheco in mind whe...
Unveiling his plan to turn welfare into workfare, President Clinton has asked Congress for $9.3 billion over five years to provide job training for single mothers who now receive handouts. That's g...
AMERICAN business may be rapidly metamorphosing from the auto age to the information age, but the federal government seems stuck somewhere in the cotton era. The Agriculture Department, to cite one...
WHY DOES White House legislative liaison Patrick Griffin keep a plastic punching bag emblazoned with Edvard Munch's The Scream next to his desk? Perhaps he shares the dark dreams of many Democrats:...
A colleague recently passed along an AP dispatch datelined Cleveland, with a note reading, ''Surely you can do something with this.'' Being eternally fascinated by the lunatic logic of the great Am...
FINISHED your list of New Year's resolutions yet? Bill Clinton has. His form a remarkably long and ambitious set of legislative initiatives with an overriding theme: security. Sensing that American...
THE NEWS grows worse by the week. Mercedes announced plans to cut 29,700 jobs over the next two years after parent Daimler-Benz reported a 95% drop in profits. Volkswagen AG, Europe's largest autom...
SACRAMENTO -- A judge overturned a new California law . . . that cut welfare benefits for people who move here from other states. U.S. District Court Judge David Levi ruled the residency requiremen...
PORTLAND, OREGON -- State welfare officials say they have stopped paying for some welfare recipients' speeding tickets . . . ''We believed it was good policy, and for years there had never been an ...
For decades, ideologues of the left and right have been talking past each other about how to eliminate poverty. In a timely new book entitled Rethinking Social Policy, Northwestern University socio...
WHERE WE GO from here depends on the lessons we draw from the hellish violence that gripped the City of Angels -- 58 dead, 2,383 injured, the worst riot since the Civil War. Those lessons could be ...
T'S SUNDAY NIGHT. Time to make the weekly how're-you-doing phone call to your mother living alone back in Omaha. But when she finally answers, something is wrong. Her speech is labored and slurred,...
With nursing homes charging an average of $30,000 a year, more and more elderly people are engaged in the fine art of Medicaid planning. That is, they're divesting themselves of enough assets to qu...
The arguments swirling about the National Endowment for the Arts seem curiously incomplete. They feature cultural conservatives like Jesse Helms, in a rage about certain now-famous grants for obsce...
No retirement plan is complete unless it provides for the possibly crushing costs of illness. For some 29 million Americans age 65 or older, the main bulwark against the crunch is Medicare, the $96...
-- Have we learned anything in the quarter century since the last great war on poverty was conceived? After all, that war was lost, and poverty in the U.S. is just as ugly and sprawling now as it w...
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NO NOVELIST would dare put into a book the most extreme of the dizzying contrasts of wealth and poverty that make up the ordinary texture of life in today's American cities. The details are too out...
A LIBERAL WHO can count.'' That's how Michael Dukakis, governor of Massachusetts and Democratic presidential front-runner, describes himself. Not a bad call. The phrase highlights the contrasting f...
THE HIGH COST of a nursing home -- $24,000 a year on average -- can quickly turn a middle-income patient into a pauper. Half of the couples over 65 with one spouse in a nursing home are impoverishe...
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HOW ABOUT a few tunes on behalf of city dudes, Willie Nelson? The gritty, bighearted country-and-western singer has sponsored Farm Aid concerts around the country and has raised more than $8 millio...
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SAILORS and socialites, corporate executives and curiosity seekers are heading toward sunny Perth for the America's Cup races. The $350-million, four-month party, which will include Australia's spi...
A subject needing more publicity than it is getting is the poverty wedge. The ''wedge,'' for purposes of this homily, is the difference between (a) the amount of money being spent by government on ...
TWENTY-TWO years after the opening shot in the War on Poverty, most Americans have given up hope of victory. According to a recent opinion poll, the overwhelming majority of Americans believe that ...
''Hey, what's everybody lining up for?'' asks the dapper young New Yorker, stepping out of a taxi. It is 10 P.M. on a Monday night, and across the street from Grand Central, Manhattan's Beaux Arts ...
California became the latest state to enact a comprehensive program forcing welfare recipients to work for their benefits. The state expects that 175,000 of the 586,000 persons on welfare will be r...
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