Anti-hunger advocates in Texas thought they had scored a win this year when state lawmakers included $60 million in the budget to launch a program to reduce food insecurity for children. But on Sunday ...

Editor’s Note: The Trump administration has clarified that it will use Section 32 tariff revenue, which typically supports child nutrition programs, to extend funding for WIC during the shutdown — ...

Trump’s budget proposal includes cutting the Women, Infants and Children program by about $291 million. The program serves low-income families with young children. During the current government ...

The first major federal program that would direct public funds to private school tuition is one part of the major budget bill that narrowly passed the U.S. Senate this week. But the tax credit-fueled ...

Congressional passage of the massive budget reconciliation measure, H.R. 1, in July set in motion a new federal-state fiscal dynamic—and states are moving fast to adapt. The law reshapes three policy ...

President Donald Trump is proposing $12 billion in cuts to the U.S. Department of Education budget for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1. The plan “reflects an agency that is responsibly winding down ...

Shifts in requirements and funding structures for SNAP enacted under the new federal budget bill could leave thousands of Pennsylvanians at risk of losing access to benefits used to help feed ...

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 22: President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attend an event introducing a new Make America Healthy Again Commission report. (Photo by ...

The Capitol is seen late Tuesday night, Sept. 26, 2023, in Washington. Senate Republicans are proposing deep Medicaid cuts as a way to offset the costs of making Trump’s current tax breaks more ...

Funds for yet another government program are on track for depletion and could put higher education further out of reach for millions of Americans, according to research from the nonprofit Committee ...

Wendy Netter Epstein is a member of the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange Advisory Committee. Christopher Robertson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...