The 19th on MSN34m
As Medicaid funding receives scrutiny, here's how it provides care for 72 million
The 19th reports on the future of Medicaid, the popular public health care program for low-income Americans that covers ...
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State Budget Office in the Parliament: Primary surplus for debt reduction, not benefits
The head of the Office, Professor Ioannis Tsoukalas, is opposed to any reintroduction of the 13th and 14th salaries - How can this result in an increase in the disposable income of citizens - The ...
Anti-abortion groups mount effort to strip Planned Parenthood funding ahead of Supreme Court hearing
Major anti-abortion groups were gathering in the nation’s capital on Thursday to begin a lobbying effort with Congress and ...
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The Buffalo News4hOpinion
The Editorial Board: State budget proposals promise help for residents, but federal cuts still threaten
Overall, budget proposals extend a helping hand to residents who need it most. But the looming threat of draconian federal cutbacks could put much of this at risk.
Congress proposes meal program cuts. How many Erie-area students could lose free lunches?
Pennsylvania pays for free breakfasts for all school students. But proposed federal spending cuts could end free lunches for ...
Precinct Reporter8h
Budget Favors Wealthy: Aid to Low-Income Slashed
The new budget framework approved by Congress may result in sweeping changes to the federal safety net and tax code. The most ...
Supreme Court seems likely to OK $8 billion phone and internet subsidy for rural, low-income areas
Liberal and conservative justices voiced concern about potentially devastating consequences of eliminating the fund that has ...
Kansas Reflector13h
Kansas House passes bill to trigger income tax cuts as long as state has surplus funds
Personal and corporate income taxes could see major breaks under Republican-led legislation that advanced Wednesday out of ...
LAist15h
How SoCal Democrats and advocates are responding to threats to Medi-Cal
Adriana Ramos-Yamamoto, a policy analyst with the California Budget & Policy Center, said one approach could include enacting ...
Gothamist21h
How can NYC’s next mayor bring down homelessness? Housing groups weigh in.
About 125,000 people sleep in a shelter on any given night and 41,000 of them are children, according to data compiled by ...
LAist22h
Medi-Cal under threat
Why now: Passed along party lines last month, the U.S. House’s budget resolution directs its Energy and Commerce Committee to ...
Americans say they are sacrificing their happiness in the face of tariffs and stubborn inflation
A recent analysis by Moody's (MCO) found that the top 10% of earners - those who make more than $250,000 per year - are responsible for about half of spending in the U.S. Overall spending data, in ...