temporary assistance for needy families

Giving the poor more choices sounds good, unless they make poor choices

In 50 years, much progress has been made in Johnson's War on Poverty

Robert V. Hess, who turned his experience as a disabled veterans thrift store manager into a career as a homelessness solutions expert, died of liver cancer Dec. 24 at his home in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. The former Perry Hall resident was 57.

Government employment statistics lie

In November, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation known as the Strong Start for America's Children Act that would pave the way for a state-federal partnership that would provide Maryland and other states significant resources to create, strengthen and expand quality preschool programs.

Small business owners can't afford to pay higher minimum wages

I grew up in an extremely poor family, but was given every opportunity to have a different future for myself. Head Start was the main instrument in establishing the positive new direction of a path toward a solid education for my brother and me. Eventually, my mother found work as a social worker, where she spent her career, helping others. All three children in our family successfully graduated from college.

Welfare recipients gain jobs at Johns Hopkins Hospital, dent the state's unemployment rate

Although modest in scope and punitive to federal workers and the jobless, Congress should approve Murray-Ryan bipartisan budget plan

Tracey Coleman of Essex says food stamps have kept her family fed since her husband was laid off from the Sparrows Point steel plant. Tens of thousands of Marylanders could lose benefits under proposals being considered in Congress.

If members of the Baltimore City Council are serious about reducing panhandling, they should offer assistance, not a police crackdown

Neither party is willing to acknowledge — much less fix — the faults of an entitlement program that will only drive us deeper into debt.

Harford County Executive David R. Craig describes himself as a moderate by temperament but he is staking out positions on critical issues that seem certain to appeal to the Republican party's hard-core conservative base as he seeks the 2014 gubernatorial nomination.

The assumption that Americans will become accustomed to the Affordable Care Act may not pan out, given the way it's structured.

In a state where 300,000 people work for the federal government and countless more depend on its benefits, Maryland has been hard hit by the government shutdown. Here are five people, a researcher, a homeless mother, a veteran and two federal workers, and how the budget impasse has affected their lives.

In a state where 300,000 people work for the federal government and countless more depend on its benefits, Maryland has been hard hit by the government shutdown. Here are five people, a researcher, a homeless mother, a veteran and two federal workers, and how the budget impasse has affected their lives.

What about the government's track record makes anyone think it can run something as complicated and important as the health care system?

Maryland 'invests' in transit? There's no payoff in liberal boondoggles

Indictment of Baltimore grocers on food stamp fraud should not justify GOP plan to deny eligibility to millions of hungry people

Maryland General Assembly should raise the minimum wage next year but resist the temptation to hand out election-year goodies

Read the transcript from the "Let Freedom Ring" ceremony Aug. 28, 2013

Don't demonize the jobless who seek government assistance

A difficult economy, not welfare payments, keep people from finding work

Attack military spending, not the poor

With some of the most generous welfare benefits in the country, there are powerful incentives not to get a job in Maryland.

Baltimore's latest redevelopment plan seems awfully familiar — big public subsidies to private development and questions of what we get in return.

Independent examiners will do a better job of ferreting out waste and fraud than agencies would do on their own

A Harford County zoning hearing examiner has issued a ruling supporting a controversial project to build 198 apartments in Bel Air South

In an era of divided and gridlocked government, social welfare organizations may be the answer for solving problems like poverty and drug addiction.

Recently I have made some very interesting observations about people and politics.

Government programs that encourage owning over renting offer marginal benefits and serious risks

Cal Thomas praises President Obama for focusing on personal responsibility and self-empowerment in the black community.

Enrollment in a controversial program that provides free cell phone service to low-income families has increased faster in Maryland than any other state in the nation, jumping nearly 100-fold since 2009, according to federal data.

The class at Oakland Mills High School was English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), which meant the students were accustomed to hearty doses of vocabulary

We're a nation of dependents, all right – dependent on rich corporations for jobs that pay a living wage

Columnist fails to understand the underlying causes of increased entitlement spending

Perhaps we should follow Britain's lead and require examinations of all those on disability, Jonah Goldberg writes.