Tag: Safety net

How food assistance programs can feed families and nourish their dignity

How food assistance programs can feed families and nourish their dignity

SNAP benefits have been cut and disrupted – causing more kids to go without enough healthy food and harming child development

SNAP benefits have been cut and disrupted – causing more kids to go without enough healthy food and harming child development

Trump’s proposed cuts to work study threaten to upend a widely supported program that helps students offset college costs

Trump’s proposed cuts to work study threaten to upend a widely supported program that helps students offset college costs

Trump was already cutting low-income energy assistance – the shutdown is making things worse as cold weather arrives

Trump was already cutting low-income energy assistance – the shutdown is making things worse as cold weather arrives

National 211 hotline calls for food assistance quadrupled in a matter of days, a magnitude typically seen during disasters

National 211 hotline calls for food assistance quadrupled in a matter of days, a magnitude typically seen during disasters

1 in 3 US nonprofits that serve communities lost government funding in early 2025

1 in 3 US nonprofits that serve communities lost government funding in early 2025

A federal program helps older people get jobs, but the Trump administration wants to get rid of it

A federal program helps older people get jobs, but the Trump administration wants to get rid of it

Data can show if government programs work or not, but the Trump administration is suppressing the necessary information

Data can show if government programs work or not, but the Trump administration is suppressing the necessary information

How 17M Americans enrolled in Medicaid and ACA plans could lose their health insurance by 2034

How 17M Americans enrolled in Medicaid and ACA plans could lose their health insurance by 2034

‘Big’ legislative package shifts more of SNAP’s costs to states, saving federal dollars but causing fewer Americans to get help paying for food

‘Big’ legislative package shifts more of SNAP’s costs to states, saving federal dollars but causing fewer Americans to get help paying for food

Conservatives notch 2 victories in their fight to deny Planned Parenthood federal funding through Medicaid

Conservatives notch 2 victories in their fight to deny Planned Parenthood federal funding through Medicaid

Employers are failing to insure the working class – Medicaid cuts would leave them even more vulnerable

Employers are failing to insure the working class – Medicaid cuts would leave them even more vulnerable