Welfare reform pilot to reduce government dependency is ‘step forward’, scholar says

A Cato scholar called the Department of Health and Human Service’s redesigned welfare pilot that intends to reduce government ...
The Nation

For Women of Color, the Child-Welfare System Functions Like the Criminal-Justice System

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JSTOR Daily

Retrospectives: James Buchanan: Clubs and Alternative Welfare Economics

James Buchanan wrote "An Economic Theory of Clubs" and invented clubs to support a form of welfare economics in which there is no social welfare function (SWF) and individual utility functions cannot ...
WIBW

Kansas Department for Children and Families to modernize state’s child welfare system

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) announced on Tuesday, July 22, three contracts have been awarded for the department’s new Comprehensive Child Welfare ...
Statesman Journal

Audit: Oregon child welfare tracking system 'adequate' but needs work

The information system used by the Oregon Department of Human Services for tracking millions of records and people involved with child welfare is "adequate" but needs work. That's especially true when ...
The Norman Transcript

Providing for our common welfare is a proper function

After reading several letters to the editor decrying Casey Holcomb’s March 1 letter, I am compelled to write a letter in support of Holcomb’s viewpoint. In regard to Dave Spaulding’s opposition to an ...