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States are hoarding $5.2 billion in welfare funds even as the need for aid grows

Image Credit: Getty Images When Congress passed welfare reform in 1996, states were given more autonomy over how they could use federal funding for aid to the poor. They could demand welfare recipients find work before receiving cash assistance. They could also use their federal “block grants” to fund employment and parenting courses or to […]

US presidential debate: Mitt Romney slips up on foreign policy

Republican Mitt Romney was corrected by the debate moderator after he accused President Barack Obama of taking two weeks to call the killings at the US embassy in Libya a terrorist attack.

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