The Social Security Administration (SSA) is overwhelming its local offices by forcing millions more people to seek in-person service while cutting thousands of staff who provide that help.

A proposal by the Trump Administration to cut off rental assistance after two years even if participants still can’t afford ...

House Republicans’ budget reconciliation legislation would cut assistance that helps children in families with low incomes get enough to eat, see a doctor when they are sick, and in other ways meet ...

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President Trump’s proposal to rescind $9.4 billion in previously approved spending, which the Senate is expected to vote on ...

President Trump’s proposal to rescind $9.4 billion in previously approved spending, which the Senate is expected to vote on this week, is a bad idea for several reasons, as noted in a recent ...

House and Senate Republicans have now passed a bill that will raise families’ food and health care costs, increase poverty and hunger, take health coverage away from millions of people, and drive up ...

Iowa lawmakers have approved a new state budget that lays bare the growing cost of the state’s tax-cut agenda: to balance the books, they’re now planning to use over $900 million in state reserves to ...

Housing is a basic human need, and no one should be turned away from resources and services that help them obtain stable, affordable housing because of their identity. The Fair Housing Act of 1968, a ...

Following a series of middle-of-the-night backroom deals, and less than an hour after the final language was unveiled, Senate Republicans voted to pass a bill that would raise food and health care ...