Welfare
5/23/2013 5:01 PM ET
On the Wednesday, May 22, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell show on MSNBC, host O'Donnell called for the defeat of a "vicious" Senate amendment pushed by Louisiana Republican Senator ...
3/20/2013 9:08 AM ET
A lengthy – 3,500 word – anguished expose on the front page of Sunday’s Washington Post, “Hungering for a new month to begin,”
about how people in Woonsocket, Rhode Island race to the grocery ...
8/23/2012 5:47 PM ET
CNN shot down Mitt Romney's claim that President Obama "gutted" welfare
reform, despite experts who helped construct the actual 1996 law
insisting that Obama did indeed strike at its heart ...
8/8/2012 11:44 PM ET
CNN relied on liberal analysis and Democratic talking points to dismantle a new Romney campaign claim about Obama gutting welfare reform. On Wednesday morning the network twice cited PolitiFact ...
8/8/2012 7:02 PM ET
On Wednesday's Morning Edition, NPR followed the example of its Big Three counterparts in failing to cover a new ad from a pro-Obama super PAC that points the finger at Mitt Romney for a woman's ...
1/23/2012 5:37 AM ET
During MSNBC's coverage of the Republican primary in South Carolina Saturday night, Al Sharpton incorrectly claimed that only 14.2 million people currently receive food stamps, and that more ...
11/4/2011 3:05 PM ET
To Eric Lichtblau, the left-wing Food Research Action Council, which pushes the misleading "food stamp challenge" publicity stunt, is merely "a Washington advocacy group working with religious ...
9/16/2011 11:57 AM ET
On Friday's NBC Today, correspondent Tom Costello described how "Nearly one in six Americans is living in poverty. 16 million are children. That's 3 million more than three years ago." However, ...
5/12/2010 11:40 AM ET
Even in the state with the highest jobless rate, some landscapers turn down work to collect unemployment.
11/30/2009 5:00 PM ET
"Food Stamp Use Soars Across U.S., and Stigma Fades," cheers a Times headline over Sunday's big lead story, cowritten by fierce welfare reform opponent (and Times reporter) Jason DeParle, who ...
