The financial balance of U.S. states faces a significant challenge as recent federal policies shift the responsibility and costs of essential social programs onto their budgets. The question is not if ...

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” offers tax cuts to the wealthiest at the expense of low-income children’s health and education.

These changes mark the most substantial SNAP cuts in the program's history and affect both federal funding and eligibility rules.

North Carolina’s rural hospitals will face $3.7 billion in Medicaid cuts and the state could be forced to end its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) following passage of President ...

Nearly 268,000 Hoosiers are about to lose Medicaid, 128,000 of them are about to lose SNAP benefits, and everyone is going to ...

Holmes JFS Director Dan Jackson says the impact of the Big Beautiful Bill won't be felt locally until October 2026.

New rules could push some residents off Medicaid, SNAP, not because they’re ineligible, but because they miss deadlines or ...

Federal cuts to SNAP under the One Big Beautiful Bill will force states to consider new costs for the nutrition program.

Missouri has a long history of struggling to process MO HealthNet applications in a timely manner. As states prepare for new ...

One-sixth of Oklahoma's 686,800 SNAP users could lose their benefits due to cuts from the Trump administration.

There are some projected savings, but Connecticut will see some significant fiscal impacts under the new federal law.

The Medicaid cuts recently approved by Congress and President Donald Trump could force states into difficult decisions, ...