State welfare officials will now be reporting applicants for benefits who are not in this country legally to federal immigration officials.

A Mesa businessman was convicted in federal court Tuesday of masterminding a scheme to steal baby formula, resell it to a government welfare program and then send millions of dollars in profits to the Middle East.

April 27, 2005

The way Frank Antenori sees it, you shouldn't be smoking or drinking if the government is helping to pay for your food or health care.

Welfare recipients would need to be tested for illegal drugs — and come up clean — if they want to receive continued benefits under the terms of one bill designed to balance the state budget.

MALIBU, Calif. - Child welfare officials and a sheriff's deputy visited the home of Britney Spears but declined to say Tuesday whether they were investigating the pop princess.

Honoring heroes has finally gone to the dogs. And the cats. Seven dogs, one cat and one person will be honored Saturday at the Friends of Animal Care and Control’s third annual awards dinner sponsored by PetSmart.

Tightened eligibility limits imposed on Arizona's welfare program due to budget cuts result in fewer families receiving benefits.

TUCSON - State welfare workers have taken an 11-year-old boy away from his mother after he called 911 and reported that he was locked in his room with only a bucket for a toilet.

Three-fourths of teenagers in the child welfare system have run into trouble with the law, and half wound up in detention, a new study finds.

The U.S. economy may be improving, but Arizona welfare rolls continue to increase along with the waiting list for working poor entitled to subsidized child care.

Gov. Janet Napolitano today unveils her plan to reform Arizona’s child welfare system, including hiring more Child Protective Services workers, raising rates for foster parents and defining child safety as the primary role of CPS.

Poor neighborhoods grew less poor in the 1990s, according to two newly released reports, and important lessons reside in the fact. One is that it was a politically dangerous fiction that the booming economy was a boon to some but not to the really poor.

Dillie Nerios is a Florida food stamp recruiter. Her job is to sign up 150 seniors monthly in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

The recent political jostling over stay-at-home and working mothers renewed the debate over the success of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, the U.S.’s main cash aid program, and the Child Care and Development Fund, which provides child care assistance to low-income families.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — When things looked their darkest for Gov. Mark Sanford - when he was in danger of being impeached for running off to Argentina to see his mistress - his best insurance policy may well have been South Carolina's lieutenant governor, Andre Bauer.

November 12, 2004

Gov. Janet Napolitano today unveils her plan to reform Arizona’s child welfare system, including hiring more Child Protective Services workers, raising rates for foster parents and defining child safety as the primary role of CPS.

A new legislative committee will convene next month to examine child welfare laws, and Maricopa County Attorney Richard Romley said Wednesday he’ll wait to see how much is accomplished before deciding whether to convene a grand jury to investigate state Child Protective Services.