The annual Drug & Alcohol Testing Industry Association (DATIA) conference, held in 2012 in San Antonio, Texas, looks like any other industry gathering. The 600 or so attendees [...]

Wince of the Week, February 24- March 2, 2013. Our EHRP team winced when we read this excerpted from a new Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Report,”TANF Emerging from t[...]

Two years ago, Harvard professor Kathryn Edin was in Baltimore interviewing public housing residents about how they got by. As a sociologist who had spent a quarter century studyin[...]

Quote of the Day, December 13, 2012: from our latest EHRP piece,  in Mother Jones: Gabe Thompson’s “Can You Survive on $2 a Day?” Welfare reform had placed strict[...]

Wince of the Week September 28, 2012:  Our EHRP team winced when we read this story, recounted by Alice Gomstyn on abcnews.go.com   Cindy Nerger, 28, who relies on food stamps to f[...]

Wince of the Week, September 16-22, 2012: The EHRP Team winced when we read this, an interview by The Nation’s Greg Kaufmann of Tim Casey, senior staff attorney at Legal Mome[...]

Quote of the day – August 28, 2012 Increasingly the time a parent is on Cal-WORKS is growing shorter, at least for Californians. In April, when the Job Club class I attended [...]

Romney says Obama "gutted" welfare reform by waiving work requirements. But what if there's no work to be found?[...]