The Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis. Indiana ended 2022 with more than 136,000 job openings partly because hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers don’t have the skills needed to join the workforce.

Mahagani Jenkins appreciated the extra money—it just wasn’t enough. For an on-and-off six months, she was a participant in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, known as TANF, receiving ...

One little-noticed provision in the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that marked the final act of the last Congress was another straight extension of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families ...

The Administration for Children and Families is preparing to overhaul the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF). Following a 2021 ProPublica investigation into how state governments ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mississippi's welfare scandal was at the center of a congressional hearing on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families reform ...

A bill moving in the West Virginia Legislature would allow the state Department of Human Services to continue drug testing welfare recipients indefinitely. The House Health Committee on Thursday ...

Mississippi Senate and House Democrats heard updates and reform recommendations Tuesday on the state's welfare program from advocates and state officials. Among chief concerns expressed at a TANF ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The South Dakota Legislature’s rules committee has passed a 10% cut to the TANF program with the goal of covering a $5.3 million dollar shortfall in the Department of Social ...