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Alex Nowrasteh and Michael Howard, CATO, Mar. 30, 2022 "On the welfare program level, immigrants consume less welfare than native‐​born Americans in all cases except for the cheapest program of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women...

Alex Nowrasteh and Robert Orr, May 10, 2018 - "Overall, immigrants are less likely to consume welfare benefits and, when they do, they generally consume a lower dollar value of benefits than native-born Americans. Immigrants who meet the eligibility...

By William A. Ruskin | In Comcast Corp. v Behrend , 133 S.Ct. 1426 (March 27, 2013) [ enhanced opinion available to lexis.com subscribers ], the Supreme Court held that the lower court erred in failing to consider flaws in plaintiffs' damages model...

Budget & Taxes STATES SLOW TO RECOVER FROM RECESSION: The worst economic downturn since the Great Depression has forced changes on state governments that could last for decades. According to a July estimate by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas...

Budget & Taxes Transportation Funding Crisis Breeds Self-Reliance In States The transportation funding crisis in the states is continuing to worsen. At least six states -- Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Montana, Tennessee, and Wyoming -- have...

Budget & Taxes Lottery Success Spurs Backlash State lottery sales topped $70 billion last year in the 43 states that have them, according to the American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries. That sum represents more than 10 percent...

Each week we'll be surveying what the media, state agencies, insurance companies, and others report in terms of workers' comp fraud. Just like a police blotter, our workers' comp fraud blotter lists recent arrests, charges, convictions and...

Each week we'll be surveying what the media, state agencies, insurance companies, and others report in terms of workers' comp fraud. Just like a police blotter, our workers' comp fraud blotter lists recent arrests, charges, convictions and...

CANBERRA Australia - (APINTL) Australia plans to reform a policy criticized as racist for restricting how Outback Aborigines spend their welfare checks by applying it to recipients regardless of ethnicity, the prime minister said Wednesday. The government...

INDIANAPOLIS — (AP) IBM Corp. and Indiana's human services agency are going to court over how much the company is owed for work it did to automate the state's welfare application system before being fired. Both sides announced that they...