(CNN) — The clock is ticking for four major social safety net programs that keep tens of millions of struggling Americans — including millions of children and senior citizens — fed and warm, as well ...

In a country as wealthy as the United States, it is a bitter irony that millions of people still fall through the cracks of a social safety net meant to protect them. Welfare programs exist, but they ...

America's financial backstop is failing at the exact moment households need it most. Families are juggling record debts, thin ...

Nonprofits deliver essential services across the U.S. This piece explores why they are central to the social safety net—and what happens when we underinvest in them.

Starting in 2027, work requirements kick in for certain beneficiaries on Medicaid, while new work rules for the SNAP food assistance program took effect on Nov. 1. These reforms mandated by the One ...

The Trump administration, for the second time in recent weeks, is using allegations of fraud to justify increased federal law enforcement actions in Minnesota, the state with the country’s largest ...

ACF received funding to improve its safety net program for access to food, health care, transportation and employment in the Adirondacks.