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Trump HHS eliminates office that sets poverty levels tied to benefits for at least 80 million people
Recent cuts eliminated a small, specialized workforce that sets the poverty standards determining who is eligible for ...
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Trump eliminates HHS office that sets poverty levels tied to benefits for 80 million people
The unit's abrupt dismissal could lead to cuts in assistance for people relying on Medicaid, food assistance and other ...
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US restores urgent food aid, except in Afghanistan and Yemen, two of the world’s poorest countries
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has reversed new cutoffs in emergency food aid to several nations but maintained ...
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The House Speaker’s Eyeing Big Cuts to Medicaid. In His Louisiana District, It’s a Lifeline.
The GOP-controlled Congress is weighing cuts to Medicaid, the government health program that covers millions of Americans — ...
What’s Keeping Us From Fixing the Homelessness Crisis
As a society, we carry a real aversion to homelessness because it contradicts national values of upward mobility based on ...
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Trump Order Would Force the ACLU to Put Its Money Where Its Mouth Is on Lawfare
This long-neglected rule of civil procedure could be the judicial insurrection's Achilles heel, if the Justice Department ...
Childhood obesity rates dropping in New Mexico
NEW ON SEVEN. CHILDHOOD OBESITY RATES ARE DROPPING IN NEW MEXICO. BUT THEY’RE STILL HIGHER THAN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE. A ...
Democrats unveil legislation raising federal minimum wage to $17 an hour
Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced the Raise the Wage Act of 2025 on Tuesday in both ...
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State of Social Protection Report 2025: The 2-Billion-Person Challenge
Many people in low income countries remain inadequately covered by social services. Learn how the right social assistance and labor market policies can encourage economic growth and self-reliance.