Millions of Americans are set to lose unemployment benefits on Monday, when federal policies to support the jobless during the coronavirus pandemic come to an end. Enhanced unemployment insurance was ...

Springfield WORKS has been awarded a two‑year $300,000 Boston Foundation grant to expand its Bridge to Prosperity program, ...

Springfield WORKS received a $300,000 grant from the Boston Foundation to support a pilot program helping Massachusetts families navigate the “benefits cliff” by providing cash bridge ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The shutdown is starting to squeeze Democratic senators: The largest federal employees union is asking them to end the shutdown, ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Springfield WORKS is launching the Bridge to Prosperity Cliff Effect Pilot Program to help individuals who rely on public assistance but receive a slight increase in their ...

Tennessee's welfare system can create a "welfare cliff" where increased income leads to a net loss of take-home pay due to benefit reduction. This disincentivizes work and upward mobility for ...

WASHINGTON — Hovering in the background of the “fiscal cliff” debate is the prospect of 2 million people losing their unemployment benefits four days after Christmas. “This is the real cliff,” said ...

W ASHINGTON’S focus on the fiscal cliff – a potentially disastrous combination of tax hikes and spending cuts scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1 – has shifted attention away from the ...