Politics

People with lower incomes are driving less and devoting more of their budgets to transport as gas prices soar.

State lawmakers declined to back a Trump-inspired plan to move 1,300 homeless people to a campus on the edge of Salt Lake City, but supporters are trying to keep the plan’s spirit alive.

States where voters bypassed officials to expand Medicaid are opting for stricter implementation of new requirements.

State officials remain uncertain on how to enforce a requirement that many adult Medicaid enrollees show they’re working and they’re taking a variety of approaches to the job, including, in a handful of states, using artificial intelligence.

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

Proponents of work requirements argue that they incentivize people who are “work-ready” to seek and keep jobs, reducing dependence on government assistance and upholding the “dignity of work.”

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 they can gain or retain health insurance through the government program. But some states think the rules don't go far enough

Congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law last summer, will soon demand more from staff at state agencies in places where lawmakers expanded Medicaid to more low-income adults — nearly all states and the District of Columbia.

Amid the war with Iran, the president has proposed to scale back some of the very programs meant to ease families’ financial burdens.