With the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, the United States embarked on a major policy change to its social welfare and safety net ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, big changes at FEMA are in danger. The Trump administration wants to overhaul disaster relief rules, replace experts with new leadership, and shift the agency's ...

The year 2023 marks several anniversaries in the recent history of large-scale government reform. It is the 45th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Service Reform Act, the 30th anniversary of the ...

California’s crime rate began a historic plunge in the early 1990s and has fallen ever since, except for some small spikes, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet it took more than a decade until ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Standards-based reform” in the heyday of the education reform movement was a bit like the title of a recent film: Everything ...

A decade into Xi Jinping’s rule, the puzzle pieces of his designs for China are in place, marking a definitive end to Deng Xiaoping’s reform-and-opening era. Four decades ago, Deng, a short, stocky ...

The veto allows permanent members, known as the P5, to block any resolution, ranging from peacekeeping missions to sanctions, in defense of their national interests and foreign policy decisions. But ...