There are now 2,000 home-buying assistance programs across the U.S.

When lawmakers return to the Capitol from a two-week recess on Monday, one of their first orders of business will be ...

Down Payment Resource (DPR) today released its Q1 2025 Homeownership Program Index (HPI) report, which saw the number of entities offering homebuyer assistance programs increase by 55 year-over-year.

Americans have heard plenty about how, effective November 1, the federal government shutdown suspended regular food stamp payments to 42 million individuals. Food stamps are important welfare benefits ...

States are now in the process of preparing to implement parts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which achieved some of the most significant pro-work reforms to America’s social welfare system in ...

Investigators have found a large underworld of fraud in Minnesota’s welfare programs. In one scandal, 57 people were convicted of stealing benefits from a children’s food program. In another scandal, ...

A general view of a "We Accept EBT Food Stamp Benefits" sign as seen at a store in Hawthorne, NJ on March 2, 2024. Christopher Sadowski 1996 was the “Year of Welfare Reform,” including for migrants.