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 ...

A wide array of hunger and health care advocates are hoping to mitigate the effects of some provisions in Trump’s budget bill ...

The price tag of Medicaid and SNAP climbs automatically because benefit formulas are tied to inflation and the cost of ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Missouri currently pays about 35% of the cost of covering about 900,000 people covered by traditional Medicaid. Anyone who is enrolled now in the expansion group would be covered with a 90% ...

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

Cost of programs pushed from federal to state Jacskon said the bill does push some of the costs for SNAP and Medicaid to the state of Ohio and the counties. "It is understandable why the bill does ...