temporary assistance for needy families

• Opinion

A Trump-Putin alliance would be great for America

Rachel Marsden asks, what would be so terrible about President Trump cooperating with President Putin?

• Opinion

A misguided view of immigrants

The Republican presidential field must rise above conservative myth and misinformation in crafting immigration policies

• Opinion

Making a study of Baltimore

What if Johns Hopkins' civil engineer and sociology majors worked in tandem to tackle the problem of Baltimore's vacant houses? What if we had a practicum such as the Baltimore "Hearing their Voices" study where students and professors design a research study, collect dat, and learn tools for evaluation over the course of a year? Such curriculum changes would institutionalize these efforts and make them a part of the Hopkins' culture. After all, Hopkins prides itself on being an integral member

• Politics

Legal activist Mike Millemann has spent his career striving to provide 'access to justice'

Mike Millemann has spent nearly 50 years representing the disempowered, the despised and the dispossessed, from convicted murderers and abandoned mental patients to taxpayers stuck with the tab left by a crooked pol

By Jonathan M. Pitts

Jul 28, 2015

• Baltimore City Paper

Free Will Astrology 7/1/15

• Maryland

Former Taneytown man pleads guilty to federal fraud charges

Jonathan Mickle, 43, a former Taneytown resident and COO of Quantell, Inc. and Intaset Technologies Corporation, now residing in Asheville, N.C., pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges for conspiring with the companies' controlling officers Shaun and Joanne Tucker, to illegally obtain millions of dollars in federal contracts for the companies and defraud the employees of the companies of health and welfare benefits. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine or

• Opinion

Stop making court a first stop for many low income parents

Shifting or creating resources to provide community-based, comprehensive and affordable — or free — dispute resolution, as well as legal, mental-health and financial-planning services, can help stabilize low-income "reorganizing" families or make transitions smoother for parents and children.

• Opinion

The two-front war on heroin

State officials finally seem to realize that no one solution will solve the heroin crisis.

• Baltimore City Paper

Op-Alt: The money spent to arrest and prosecute Freddie Gray for nonviolent crimes could have sent him to college

• Maryland

Republicans take aim at the poor

Cutting food stamps for the poor or limiting what they can purchase is the latest cause for the GOP.

• Baltimore City Paper

The Battles of Lexington: City Paper goes deep inside and under Baltimore's oldest market

• Maryland

Federal indictment adds to charges against Keymar couple

A Keymar couple indicted in September for embezzling $285,000 in employee benefits is now also charged with conspiring to fraudulently transfer $1.2 million in funds from federal contracts.

• Opinion

The rise of the working poor and the non-working rich

The rise of the working poor and the non-working rich is challenging the notion that work is justly rewarded, says Robert Reich.

• Obituaries

Peter S. Smith

Peter S. Smith, a former longtime Baltimore attorney who pioneered programs that provided legal representation to the city's poor and disenfranchised, died.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Mar 13, 2015

• Maryland

Let's help the poor, but not too close to home

Tuesday Dan Rodricks column following up on Anne Arundel County affordable housing, Councilman John Grasso

By Dan Rodricks

Feb 2, 2015

• Poverty

Some of Grasso's own constituents likely 'freeloaders'

Sunday column on Arundel councilman's controversial remarks

By Dan Rodricks

Jan 10, 2015

• Opinion

It's not the size of the government that's the problem

Robert Reich says it's not the size of the government that's the problem but its heavy tilt toward corporate interests.

• Opinion

The root cause of inner-city poverty and violence: Single parenthood

The root cause of inner-city poverty and violence: Single parenthood

• Maryland

Frank Batavick: Long road to race equality

• Public Transportation

Federal spending bill funds Md. transportation projects

Maryland will see hundreds of millions in federal cash to build the Red Line, dredge the Port of Baltimore and to clear a backlog of rape kits, among other provisions in a massive budget deal reached by congressional negotiators on Tuesday.

By Erin Cox

Dec 9, 2014

• Maryland

Workers need to earn living wage

• Opinion

Democrats have run the economy (and everything else) into the ground

Democrats have run the economy (and everything else) into the ground

• Opinion

Voter ID laws not only don't target minorities, they have no effect on turnout either

Voter ID laws not only don't target minorities, they have no effect on turnout either

• Baltimore City Paper

Body Politic

• Opinion

Double-voting not the only opportunity for fraud [Letter]

Double-voting is not the only problem facing Maryland and other states that don't have photo ID requirement

• Baltimore City Paper

Why the hell won't Baltimore City Social Services answer the damn phone?

food stamp, recertification, SNAP benefits

• Baltimore City Paper

All Wet?

• Maryland

No lock on long-term funding

• Opinion

End the city pension fight [Editorial]

Baltimore's police and fire unions should recognize that a settlement over pension issues, not more litigation, is in their members' best interest.

• Opinion

O'Malley takes on another 'pop' issue [Commentary]

Gov. Martin O'Malley, a presidential hopeful, has taken on yet another "pop issue," proposing that Maryland provide foster care to several thousand unaccompanied Central American minors, lest they be sent to "certain death." He has also championed abolition of capital punishment and the establishment of gay marriage, the Dream Act, and tax credits and fueling stations for electric vehicles whose technology is not ready for prime time.

• Opinion

Ryan's safety net [Editorial]

When it comes to welfare, Paul Ryan gets two things right — expand the federal Earned Income Tax Credit and don't use reforms as a means to cut federal spending

• Opinion

Don't turn your back on children [Letter]

U.S. should welcome immigrant children as they did European refugees after World War II

• Maryland

Court gives employers a pass

• Politics and Government

SSA transfers disability appeals cases to cut backlog

The Social Security Administration will transfer more than 15 percent of its disability appeals cases from Baltimore to other cities in an effort to relieve what had become the third-worst processing delay in the nation, the agency said Friday.

• Opinion

Balto. Co. endorsements [Editorial]

The Sun makes its endorsements in selected Baltimore County races for legislature and County Council.

• Baltimore City Paper

We Feed Dead People

• Baltimore City Paper

F.U. Kevin Spacey

• Baltimore City Paper

30 Years Later, the Times Discovers "The New Poor"

• Baltimore City Paper

Insanity and its Malcontents

• Politics and Government

Social Security disability backlog in Md. among highest in nation

The Social Security Administration office that reviews disability claims for Central Maryland has the third-longest processing delay in the nation, prompting a member of the state's congressional delegation on Monday to call for action to address its expanding backlog.

• Opinion

The perils of America's hard-charging capitalism [Commentary]

Soft-hearted versions of capitalism lead to a higher quality of life in Europe and Canada

• Opinion

Class warfare endures as preferred political strategy [Commentary]

The Republicans obviously are hoping Obamacare will dominate the midterm campaign debate. But the Democrats will strive to make income inequality their own class-warfare battleground, trying to swell the turnout of their minority and ethnic constituencies, traditionally less likely to vote in midterm elections.

• Business

Five questions for Jenny Morgan

Five questions for Jenny Morgan, CEO of Linthicum-based basys, a benefits-administration software company, and chairwoman of the Baltimore branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

• Opinion

Who bears the burden of America's social ills? [Letter]

Who bears the burden of America's social ills?

• Opinion

Democrats act only in self-interest [Letter]

Marylanders are growing increasingly frustrated with one-party rule and Democrats who ignore the interests of their constituents

• Maryland

John Culleton: Some look forward, others backward

• Maryland

Jordan Weissmann: Ryan's deceiving theory of poverty

• Politics

Senate to consider changes to federal day care program

Child care workers would undergo stiffer background checks and states would spend more to improve the quality of day care under a sweeping, bipartisan bill crafted by Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski that is set for a vote in the Senate as early as this week.

• Entertainment

Remington residents deal with the consequences of change

It's a balancing act for neighbors as Baltimore neighborhood Remington continues to thrive

• Opinion

Baltimore's breadwinners need jobs [Commentary]

Government funded jobs would benefit the breadwinner, his or her children and the Baltimore. Work skills of the long-term unemployed would not atrophy, and those of all participants would increase. Their children would have a brighter future in school and life, and Baltimore would reduce some of its infrastructure and social service deficits. A training component, such as that contained in the apprenticeship model, should be part of each job so that people can achieve mastery in an occupation