| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.08.2026 | Lombardo-Trump Economy: 1 in 6 Southern Nevada Residents Are Food Insecure | As Nevada food banks are overwhelmed with record demand, new reporting shows that 400,000 Southern Nevada residents faced food insecurity in 2024 — nearly a 20,000-person increase from the previous year. Since then, the state’s hunger crisi... |
| 15.08.2026 | College can cost $100,000 a year. Here’s how families are covering the tab | Higher education has a growing affordability problem.
Now, nearly half of families borrow money to pay for college, according to Sallie Mae’s new How America Pays for College report.
College tuition continues to increase faster than any oth... |
| 31.07.2026 | New Medicaid work rules could cause patients to lose coverage, rare disease advocates warn | New Medicaid work requirements could put rare disease patients at risk of losing coverage, even when their medical conditions prevent them from consistently working.
Advocates warn that vague exemption rules and differing state policies cou... |
| 30.07.2026 | REMINDER: Sununu and Brown Support Trump’s Big Ugly Bill That Cut Billions in Health Care Funding for New Hampshire | REMINDER: Sununu and Brown Support Trump’s Big Ugly Bill That Cut Billions in Health Care Funding for New Hampshire
On the anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid becoming law, here’s a reminder that Republican U.S. Senate candidates John Sunu... |
| 29.07.2026 | Lombardo Follows Trump in Endorsing Flippo, Who Said “One Big Beautiful Bill” Really Helped America | After admitting to taking orders from his “commanding officer” Donald Trump, it’s no surprise that Joe Lombardo has embraced MAGA extremist candidate David Flippo, who said the GOP’s budget bill “really helped America” and is “an asset to a... |
| 29.07.2026 | Where Do Sununu, Brown Stand on Trump’s Latest Health Care Cuts? | Where Do Sununu, Brown Stand on Trump's Latest Health Care Cuts?
Shocking new reporting from the Wall Street Journal exposes the Trump Administration’s plans to end its Medicare Part D subsidy program that could put over 173,000 Granite Sta... |
| 25.07.2026 | How Much is the Lombardo-Trump Economy Costing Nevadans This Week? (“Commanding Officer” Edition) | 8 News Now: Clark County gets a ‘C’ for diversified economy, LVGEA chief says next steps ‘not an easy lift’
CNBC: Analysis: Iran war energy shock hits the U.S. economy as gas and diesel prices climb
Welcome back to your weekly rundown of th... |
| 03.07.2026 | As ACA enrollment falls by millions, Trump administration and policy gurus disagree on why | Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollment has declined by about 3 million people, or 13%, since the end of 2025, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Trump administration said fraud controls account for the decreas... |
| 03.07.2026 | After Joe Lombardo Embraced Trump’s Cruel Cuts to Health Care and Food Assistance, Nevadans Are Paying the Price | Nevada State Democratic Party Chair Daniele Monroe-Moreno released the following statement ahead of the one year anniversary since Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” became law:
“While Joe Lombardo celebrated Donald Trump’s disastrous ... |
| 02.07.2026 | NHDP Statement Ahead of the One-Year Anniversary of Republicans Passing Trump’s Big Ugly Bill | NHDP Statement Ahead of the One-Year Anniversary of Republicans Passing Trump’s Big Ugly Bill
It has been nearly one year since Congressional Republicans passed Donald Trump’s Big Ugly Bill. In response, NHDP Chair Ray Buckley released the ... |
| 02.07.2026 | New Jersey is set to charge companies with workers on Medicaid. Other states may follow | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
New Jersey is launching a new fee on companies whose workers have Medicaid health coverage instead of being covered by their employers. Other states are considering it, too.
Demo... |
| 29.06.2026 | 4 key numbers highlighting the stress facing grocery consumers | Listen to the article 5 min
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It’s no surprise that sticker shock at the grocery store continues to worry consumers.
The closely watched consumer sentiment index put out b... |
| 26.06.2026 | Funding Available to Develop Supportive Housing Statewide | Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the availability of $45.9 million through the Empire State Supportive Housing Initiative or ‘ESSHI,’ which funds supportive services to help provide stable housing for New Yorkers experiencing homelessn... |
| 24.06.2026 | Colorado’s proposed SNAP ‘soda ban’ likely dead after judge’s ruling | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado’s proposed ban on using public food assistance to pay for soft drinks, which already faced a tight approval timeline, is likely dead after a judge on Monday ruled the federal government la... |
| 18.06.2026 | More Americans are hungry in the face of federal cuts, rising grocery prices | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org
The days of ground beef and chicken legs are long gone at the Ritenour Co-Care Food Pantry just outside of St. Louis. The nonprofit has swapped out those staple protei... |
| 30.05.2026 | At least 3.5 million people have lost food stamp access as Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ cuts take effect, analysis finds | Consumers are facing higher costs when it comes to food, gas and other necessary items.
More than 3.5 million beneficiaries of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which provides food benefits to low-income indivi... |
| 29.05.2026 | IRS unveils new health savings account limits for 2027 | The IRS has increased the health savings account, or HSA, contribution limit for 2027 to $4,500 for self-only coverage and $9,000 for family plans.
You must have an eligible high-deductible health insurance plan to make HSA contributions.
T... |
| 15.05.2026 | A Texas town may offer a preview of a Trump plan to force noncitizens from public housing | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By VALERIE GONZALEZ
PORT ISABEL, Texas (AP) — Until recently, young children ran in and out of their public housing homes in this Gulf Coast town, playing on sun-dappled lawns as mothers looked ove... |
| 05.05.2026 | Food stamp work rules don’t increase employment, researchers say | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Taylor Sisk, KFF Health News
DELBARTON, W.Va. — A half-dozen cars had been in the queue for nearly four hours by the time the House of Hope mobile food pantry line began to move. Seventy or so m... |
| 01.05.2026 | New federal Medicaid rules require one month of work. Some states demand more | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Samantha Liss, KFF Health News
Millions of people who apply for Medicaid in the coming years will have to prove they’ve been working, going to school, or volunteering for at least a month before... |
| 01.05.2026 | Millionaire taxes gain steam as states face budget crunches | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org
While the idea of a special tax on millionaires is hotly debated across the country, Maine state Rep. Cheryl Golek characterized her state’s new tax as a modest and re... |
| 23.04.2026 | Wealth, millionaire tax push spreads to more states — but the trend presents a ‘challenge,’ expert says | As more Democratic states push for higher taxes on the wealthy, some policy experts have criticized these policies.
States including Massachusetts, Maine and Washington have approved higher taxes on those earning $1 million or more annually... |
| 07.04.2026 | Executive Reach: Funding, Prosecutions, and the Limits of Power | President Trump bypasses Congress. He funds TSA agents. An executive order secured paychecks. This eased airport disruption. The move raised legal questions. Experts cited the Antideficiency Act. The administration defended its discretion. ... |
| 06.04.2026 | New college graduates face a tough job market. Here’s why unemployment hits them harder | BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said at a BlackRock summit in March that 2026 graduates could experience the highest jobless rate in years, due in part to artificial intelligence making more entry-level roles obsolete.
“For young people early in t... |
| 01.04.2026 | Trump is paying TSA agents — but where is the money coming from? | President Donald Trump announced he would pay Transportation Security Administration agents starting this week via executive order.
The announcement came after weeks of disruption at U.S. airports as TSA agents went without pay and missed w... |
| 18.03.2026 | Immigration enforcement threatens housing security, rippling through local economies | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Robbie Sequeira, Stateline.org
As federal immigration officers made more “at-large” arrests in communities across the country in the first year of the current Trump administration — including at... |
| 27.02.2026 | Nearly 1 in 5 eligible filers miss this ‘valuable’ tax credit, IRS says — how it can boost refunds | Nearly 1 in 5 eligible taxpayers miss the earned income tax credit, or EITC, which averaged $2,916 for 2024 returns, according to the IRS.
For tax year 2025, the maximum EITC is worth up to $8,046 for filers with three or more qualifying ch... |
| 24.02.2026 | New Medicaid work rules likely to hit middle-aged adults hard | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Samantha Liss, Sam Whitehead, KFF Health News
Lori Kelley’s deteriorating vision has made it hard for her to find steady work.
The 59-year-old, who lives in Harrisburg, North Carolina, closed he... |
| 19.02.2026 | HUD proposes rule that would force noncitizens from public housing | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MICHAEL CASEY
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Thursday proposed a rule that would limit public housing mostly to citizens, which advocates fear could lead to tens of thou... |
| 06.02.2026 | How Trump’s child tax credit changes could impact your refund this season | The maximum child tax credit increased to $2,200 per child in 2025, up from $2,000, based on changes enacted via President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill.”
However, with zero taxes owed, the most you can claim per kid is $1,700, known a... |
| 03.02.2026 | What Medicaid, SNAP work requirements in Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ mean for older workers | President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” introduced Medicaid work requirements for certain individuals up to age 64, and raised the work requirement ages for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to include individuals 55 to 64... |
| 30.01.2026 | Expanded work requirements for the biggest US food aid program are kicking in for more states | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
Work requirements are kicking in for more older adults and parents of teenagers across the U.S. who get help with groceries through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.... |
| 31.12.2025 | Study says new Colorado family tax credits cut child poverty by nearly 41%. Can the state afford to keep them going? | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Middle- and lower-income Coloradans, especially those with children, will receive tax credits worth thousands of dollars when they file their taxes in 2026.
But whether those tax breaks continue to... |
| 17.12.2025 | ACA Subsidy Deadlock Threatens Millions with Soaring Health Premiums | Millions of Americans face drastic health insurance cost increases. Enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies expire January 1. Senate efforts to extend relief or offer alternatives failed. Premiums could more than double for many. A bip... |
| 12.12.2025 | Why affordability is the ‘beating heart’ of the ACA enhanced subsidy debate, health policy experts say | Enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act health insurance premiums are set to expire at year’s end if Congress doesn’t extend them.
Health proposals from Senate Democrats and Republicans failed on Thursday.
Democrats wanted a three-year e... |
| 04.12.2025 | Financial Advisor Playbook
The first step workers should take after a layoff, as job losses soar | U.S. employers have cut more than 1.1 million jobs through November of this year, consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported Thursday. That number is the highest level since 2020, during the Covid pandemic.
There is one thing... |
| 30.11.2025 | As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Tevis Garrett Graddy-Lovelace
The U.S. government has caused massive food waste during President Donald Trump’s second term. Policies such as immigration raids, tariff changes and temporary and ... |
| 14.11.2025 | Details Of DHS Agreement Reveal Risks Of Trump Administration’s Use Of Social Security Data For Voter Citizenship Checks | This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.
This year, when states began using an expanded Department of Homeland Security system to check their voter rolls for noncitizens, it was suppose... |
| 05.11.2025 | Congressional stalemate creates chaos for Obamacare shoppers | By Michelle Andrews, KFF Health News
This year’s Obamacare open enrollment period, which started Nov. 1 in most states, is full of uncertainty and confusion for the more than 24 million people who buy health insurance through the federal an... |
| 31.10.2025 | SNAP has provided grocery help for 60-plus years; here’s how it works | By MARGERY BECK and GEOFF MULVIHILL
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is a major piece of the U.S. social safety net used by nearly 42 million, or about 1 in 8 Americans, to help buy groceries. Related Articles
FDA res... |
| 28.10.2025 | Colorado joins Democratic states in suing Trump administration over suspended SNAP benefits | A new lawsuit filed Tuesday by officials in Colorado and other Democratic states seeks to uncork emergency money to help tens of millions of Americans keep buying food for their families after federal SNAP funding is expected to run dry Sat... |
| 28.10.2025 | Officials show little proof that new tech will help Medicaid enrollees meet work rules | By Rae Ellen Bichell and Sam Whitehead, KFF Health News
This summer, the state of Louisiana texted just over 13,000 people enrolled in its Medicaid program with a link to a website where they could confirm their incomes.
The texts were part... |
| 28.10.2025 | What to know as federal food help and preschool aid will run dry Saturday if shutdown persists | By JONATHAN MATTISE and GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press
A new lawsuit by Democratic state officials Tuesday seeks to uncork emergency money to help tens of millions of Americans keep buying food for their families after federal SNAP fundi... |
| 23.10.2025 | States worry about how to fill the gap in food aid ahead of a federal benefits halt | By GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press
Officials in Louisiana, Vermont and Virginia pledged Thursday to keep food aid flowing to recipients in their states, even if the federal program is stalled next month because of the government shutdown.... |
| 17.10.2025 | Fixed Income Strategies
ACA enhanced subsidy lapse could hit early retirees hardest amid shutdown fight | Democrats are pushing to extend enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act health insurance premiums as part of a deal to end the federal government shutdown.
Republicans say they want any deal on subsidies to happen outside shutdown-relate... |
| 13.10.2025 | 1.4M lawfully present immigrants could lose subsidized health coverage | By Shalina Chatlani, Stateline.org
An estimated 1.4 million immigrants who are in the country legally but are not citizens stand to lose their government-subsidized health care coverage under the sweeping tax and spending bill President Don... |
| 08.10.2025 | Where jobs are scarce, over 1 million people could dodge Trump’s Medicaid work rules | By Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News
Millions of Medicaid enrollees may have a way out of the new federal work requirement — if they live in a county with high unemployment.
By January 2027, President Donald Trump’s far-reaching domestic polic... |
| 10.09.2025 | ACA cliff may mean ‘huge premium shock’ for 22 million people in 2026, expert says | Enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act insurance premiums are set to expire at the end of 2025 if Congress doesn’t intervene.
The enhanced subsidies, or enhanced premium tax credits, have been in place since 2021.
The average premium wo... |
| 04.09.2025 | Social Security praises its new chatbot. Ex-officials say it was tested but shelved under Biden | By Darius Tahir, KFF Health News
John McGing couldn’t reach a human. That might be business-as-usual in this economy, but it wasn’t business; he had called the Social Security Administration, where the questions often aren’t generic and the... |
| 20.08.2025 | New work rules could deny food stamps to thousands of veterans | “I’m pissed. I mean, I cannot get a job. Nowhere to live,” said Kamara. As he spoke, Kamara pointed to his collared shirt, noting that he had just dressed up to interview for a job as a security guard. He learned that morning he hadn’t gott... |
| 16.08.2025 | Leaked MAHA report frustrates food policy experts: ‘Everything is vague and voluntary’ | Back in May, RFK Jr’s MAHA Commission released a report offering a “devastating critique of what American society has done to its kids,” says nutrition expert Prof. Marion Nestle. The follow-up, which was supposed to offer concrete solution... |
| 14.08.2025 | Social Security has existed for 90 years. Why it may be more threatened than ever | Yet the program remains far from the sound economic system that Roosevelt envisioned, due to changes made — and not made — under both Democratic and Republican presidents.
Here’s a look at past and current challenges to Social Security, the... |
| 08.08.2025 | Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ bill will cut $186 billion from SNAP through 2035—how states might handle the changes | The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program helps more than 42 million people afford groceries each month, making it the largest anti-hunger program in the United States. But due to President Donald Trump’s tax and spending megabill signe... |
| 01.08.2025 | The Risks of Government Data Suppression | July 29, 2025 |
Sarah James, Assistant Professor of Political Science
The U.S. has the highest rate of maternal mortality among developed nations. Since 1987, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has administered the Pregnancy Ris... |
| 22.07.2025 | ACA marketplace health plan enrollees could face ‘subsidy cliff’ in 2026 — here’s how to avoid it | Starting in 2026, millions of Americans could see a steep increase in the cost for marketplace health insurance unless Congress extends a pandemic-era tax break.
Without action from Congress, the premium tax credit — which makes Affordable ... |
| 21.07.2025 | Without a net: Who will feel the pain from budget cuts? | People who rely on Medicaid for health care coverage
More than 78 million people are enrolled in Medicaid in 2025, according to Medicaid.gov, about 23% of the U.S. population. They include eligible low-income adults, pregnant women, childre... |
| 11.07.2025 | Why 22 million people may see a ‘sharp’ increase in health insurance premiums in 2026 | The so-called “big beautiful bill” that President Donald Trump signed on July 4 cut taxes for some households.
However, the law didn’t extend a tax break that has lowered health insurance premiums for millions of Affordable Care Act enrolle... |
| 10.07.2025 | Head Start will be cut off for immigrants without legal status, Trump administration says | Requiring proof of immigration status would likely create fear and confusion among families seeking to enroll their children, said Yasmina Vinci, executive director of the National Head Start Association.
“This decision undermines the funda... |
| 10.07.2025 | Here’s how the Trump tax bill will impact Colorado, from Medicaid to new tax breaks to energy credits | A clearer loss for the state budget is set to come in 2027. That’s when the federal government will start reducing how much states can tax health care providers, such as hospitals. Colorado currently charges the maximum provider tax rate of... |
| 10.07.2025 | Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ cuts food stamps for millions — the average family may lose $146 per month, report finds | Newly enacted changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, may cause 22.3 million families to lose some or all of their benefits, according to research from the Urban Institute.
Here’s how much that may reduce what fam... |
| 09.07.2025 | What Trump’s big tax law could mean for the youngest Americans | Medicaid cuts could add to strains on families
More than 10 million Americans rely on Medicaid for health care. About 40% of births are covered by Medicaid. Newborns, too, qualify for it when their mothers have it.
The new law doesn’t take ... |
| 02.07.2025 | Why Trump tax deductions — for tips, car loans and more — may not carry large benefits for low earners | New tax deduction — on auto loans, tips and overtime pay, and for older Americans — wouldn’t deliver much of a financial benefit for lower earners, experts said.
These policies are part of a massive legislative package championed by Preside... |
| 01.07.2025 | Senate Republicans’ spending bill boosts child tax credit. Who stands to benefit | Under current law, the maximum child tax credit is $2,000, which will revert to $1,000 after 2025 without changes from Congress.
The Senate’s spending bill would permanently raise the top credit to $2,200 starting in 2025.
By contrast, the ... |
| 01.07.2025 | GOP Sen. Murkowski cast crucial vote for Trump’s megabill after getting key carveout | Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska cast a crucial vote for President Donald Trump’s massive tax bill, putting Senate Republicans over the top to pass it with a tie-breaking vote.
But before she voted yes, the senator secured a key carveout for h... |
| 29.06.2025 | Opinion: Alex Schwartz: What if universal rental assistance were implemented to deal with the housing crisis? | A financial sinkhole
Just how expensive are rents in the U.S.?
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, a household that spends more than 30% of its income on housing is deemed to be cost-burdened. If it spends mor... |
| 27.06.2025 | ‘Deeply harmful’ Medicaid cuts still in ‘big beautiful’ bill after parliamentarian ruling, expert says | Some Medicaid cuts proposed in Republicans’ “big beautiful” bill have been rejected by the Senate parliamentarian for inclusion in the legislation.
Yet other parts of the proposed Medicaid cuts — including new work requirements of 80 hours ... |
| 26.06.2025 | The child tax credit could be worth over $2,000 under Republicans’ spending plan—but millions of families wouldn’t benefit | Both the House and Senate versions of the budget reconciliation bill include an increase to the child tax credit, but the House’s version gives a larger payout to families.
The child tax credit is a partially refundable tax credit available... |
| 25.06.2025 | Congress’ ‘big beautiful’ bill proposes new Medicaid work requirements. Here’s what to know | New Medicaid work requirements proposed in Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” may prompt millions of Americans to lose coverage.
Individuals ages 19 to 64 would need to work at least 80 hours per month to be eligible for coverage, un... |
| 24.06.2025 | The Big Beautiful Bill: A Double-Edged Sword for Education and Housing | The “Big Beautiful Bill” is a phrase that rolls off the tongue but hides a complex reality. As it winds its way through Congress, it brings with it a storm of concerns. From the halls of universities to the homes of struggling families, the... |
| 24.06.2025 | The Battle for Wolves and Homes: A Tale of Policy and Protection | In the heart of America, two battles rage on. One is for the gray wolf, a creature that roams the wilds of Colorado and beyond. The other is for the homes of millions, as housing advocates grapple with proposed cuts to rental assistance. Bo... |
| 23.06.2025 | Housing advocates worry states can’t fill rental aid gaps if Trump cuts go through | Trump’s request also proposes new rules, such as a two-year time limit on the receipt of Housing Choice Vouchers, formerly known as Section 8 vouchers, for households that do not include persons with disabilities or older adults. The vouche... |
| 19.06.2025 | Big Pharma Under Fire: A Taxing Debate in the Senate | The Senate floor is heating up. Two Democratic lawmakers, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Jan Schakowsky, are shining a spotlight on the pharmaceutical giants. Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, AbbVie, and Amgen are in the crosshairs. Th... |
| 18.06.2025 | How child tax credit would change under Senate, House GOP’s ‘big beautiful’ spending bills | Under current law, the maximum child tax credit is $2,000, which will revert to $1,000 after 2025 without action from Congress.
Both House and Senate proposals would increase the top credit, but phase-ins would mirror the current tax break.... |
| 17.06.2025 | Democrats press Pfizer, J&J and others over low tax bills and lobbying as Senate debates Trump’s plan | Two Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday pressed five of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical companies about their low tax bills and whether they support extending massive tax cuts for the industry in the GOP reconciliation bill.
Sen. Elizabeth ... |
| 13.06.2025 | Who benefits from Republicans’ ‘big beautiful’ bill depends largely on income. Children are no exception | House Republicans’ version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes new money for certain families, including $1,000 investment accounts for children and an enhanced $2,500 child tax credit.
But the terms of the legislation, which is now ... |
| 10.06.2025 | Top RFK Jr. aide attacks US health system while running company that promotes wellness alternatives | “It reeks of hypocrisy,” said Dr. Reshma Ramachandran, a health researcher at Yale University. “In effect, he is representing another industry that is touting nonregulated products and using his platform within the government to financially... |
| 06.06.2025 | Why millions of Americans would lose health insurance under House GOP megabill | Federal funding cuts in the House of Representatives’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act would cause millions of Americans to lose health insurance under Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, experts said.
With the Senate poised to consider the leg... |
| 03.06.2025 | The Judicial Tug-of-War: Democracy at Stake | In the grand theater of American politics, the judiciary stands as a silent sentinel. Yet, its role is increasingly under siege. Populist leaders, like former President Trump, have turned judges into scapegoats. They paint them as obstacles... |
| 02.06.2025 | Can Trump fix the national debt? Republican senators, many investors and even Elon Musk have doubts | Leavitt said the “blatantly wrong claim that the ‘One, Big, Beautiful Bill’ increases the deficit is based on the Congressional Budget Office and other scorekeepers who use shoddy assumptions and have historically been terrible at forecasti... |
| 02.06.2025 | See where seniors face the longest travel times to get to their local Social Security offices | A new policy is expected to prompt nearly 2 million more individuals to visit local Social Security offices every year.
Those trips may require driving times of over an hour, depending on where a person lives and where their closest agency ... |
| 02.06.2025 | Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax bill risks food assistance for tens of thousands of Coloradans, think tanks estimate | “If you’re able to work, then you should go to work,” she said. “Even the Bible says if you don’t work, you don’t eat. There’s a lot of pride that comes with earning a living and going out and being a part of the workforce.”
But Democrats a... |
| 24.05.2025 | Rapidly expanding school voucher programs pinch state budgets | Opponents have long warned about vouchers draining resources from public education as students move from public schools to private ones. But research into several programs has shown many voucher recipients already were enrolled in private s... |
| 23.05.2025 | The Child Tax Credit: A Double-Edged Sword for American Families | In the intricate dance of American politics, the child tax credit has emerged as a key player. Recently, House Republicans pushed a budget bill that promises to boost the maximum child tax credit to $2,500. This move is part of a larger spe... |
| 23.05.2025 | The Looming Cuts to SNAP: A Recipe for Crisis | The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is on the chopping block. Proposed cuts threaten to slice benefits for millions of Americans. The GOP tax bill, touted as a “big, beautiful” solution, may instead serve as a recipe for di... |
| 23.05.2025 | House Republican tax bill skipped ACA credits — marketplace health insurance will get pricier without them | Premium tax credits under the enhanced Affordable Care Act were not included in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that House Republicans passed on Thursday.
Without action from Congress, the subsidies are on track to expire by the end of 202... |
| 22.05.2025 | House Republican budget bill boosts maximum child tax credit to $2,500 — here’s who qualifies | House Republicans on Thursday passed a bigger child tax credit as part of President Donald Trump’s multi-trillion-dollar spending package.
If enacted, the bill would make permanent the maximum $2,000 credit passed via Trump’s 2017 tax cuts,... |
| 22.05.2025 | What the House Republican budget bill means for your money | House Republicans advanced a multitrillion-dollar tax and spending package that could have sweeping impacts on household finances.
The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” extends the 2017 Trump tax cuts, slashes spending on social safety net progr... |
| 21.05.2025 | Food stamps face ‘biggest cut in the program’s history’ under GOP tax bill | As lawmakers look to enact a new legislative tax package, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is poised to see big cuts that experts say could put benefits at risk.
With the proposed changes, more federal food assistance... |
| 14.05.2025 | Medicaid work requirements would kick hardworking people off health-care coverage, Sen. Warnock says | As some Washington lawmakers look to slash federal spending, that may include Medicaid cuts.
But proposals to implement work requirements for coverage eligibility should be off the table, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock tells CNBC.com.
“Wha... |
| 13.05.2025 | House Republican tax plan debate kicks off. Here are two key issues to watch | The House Republican debate over President Donald Trump’s tax agenda has kicked off.
An early version of the House Ways and Means tax bill would cost about $3.7 trillion over 10 years, according to estimates from the Joint Committee on Taxa... |
| 12.05.2025 | House GOP reveals Trump’s tax breaks for tips, overtime and car loans in bill, but costs run high | Trump said when he returns to Washington, “we will work together on any and all outstanding issues, but there shouldn’t be many — The Bill is GREAT. We have no alternative, WE MUST WIN!”
But one key Republican, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri,... |
| 11.05.2025 | As new Social Security leadership takes the helm, here are the changes beneficiaries need to watch | The Social Security Administration is under new leadership after former Fiserv CEO Frank Bisignano has been sworn in as commissioner.
The change at the helm of the federal agency comes after the Trump administration crossed the first 100 da... |
| 06.05.2025 | ‘My Social Security is my Social Security’: With Trump, Musk and DOGE, will it stay that way? | Now, Trump and Musk, in their efforts to upend federal spending, provide tax cuts for the wealthy and fund mass deportations, have put the 90-year-old system in their sights.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in... |
| 03.05.2025 | The Tug of War Over Social Security: A Battle for Privacy and Dignity | The landscape of Social Security is shifting. Recent court rulings and policy changes are stirring a pot of controversy. On one side, the demand for transparency and access to information. On the other, the need for privacy and protection o... |
| 03.05.2025 | On Decision Day, more high school seniors choose a college based on cost | As college costs rise, the decisions many high school seniors make about college now largely come down to the math.
Increasingly, students are opting to enroll at their in-state public college.
Worries about ballooning student loan balances... |
| 30.04.2025 | Trump administration retreats from 100% withholding on Social Security clawbacks | In many cases, recovering the money had entailed withholding 100% of monthly benefits.
Millions of beneficiaries, including people struggling to get by on monthly checks, have received overpayment notices, a 2023 investigation by KFF Health... |
| 23.04.2025 | Incoming college freshmen are set to rack up $40,000 in student debt by graduation, report finds | The Trump administration is cracking down on federal student loan borrowers who fell behind on their bills.
At the same time, new borrowers are preparing to enter the student loan system.
A recent study found that incoming college freshmen ... |
| 22.04.2025 | The Echoes of Oklahoma City: Lessons Unlearned and Lives at Risk | April 19, 1995, is a date etched in the minds of many Americans. The Oklahoma City bombing shattered lives and left scars that run deep. As we mark the 30th anniversary of this tragic event, survivors and families of victims reflect on the ... |
| 21.04.2025 | 60,000 Americans to lose their rental assistance and risk eviction unless Congress acts | “To have it stop would completely upend all the progress that they’ve made,” said Sonya Acosta, policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which researches housing assistance.
“And then you multiply that by 59,000 househo... |
| 19.04.2025 | Republicans in Congress are eyeing cuts to Medicaid. But what does Medicaid actually do? | Medicare is a supplemental insurance program that’s limited in scope. It doesn’t pay for long-term care, most dental care or routine physical exams. Around 68.4 million people are enrolled in Medicare.
Medicaid is a more comprehensive gover... |
