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Since its creation, D.C.’s Commission on Poverty has struggled to fulfill its mission of working and advocating for those living in poverty in D.C. Instead, commissioners say they have spent time legitimizing the commission to the same D.C. agencies it is meant to collaborate with.

The McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility, in collaboration with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, recently released, “In pursuit of progress: Americans’ aspirations for economic mobility,” a large-scale study examining how Americans define opportunity, the barriers they face, and what they believe it will take to build a better future.

When prices spiked in 2021-22, wages failed to keep up for many workers, new research shows. Now the pattern is repeating.

States are scrambling to get ready for new Medicaid work requirements. Politicians’ focus on requiring work has angered many people with disabilities who have Medicaid and say current policies that apply to them have the opposite effect — making them choose between working or receiving benefits.

House Republicans are hoping Vice President JD Vance’s personal appeal to Congress to help crack down on alleged abuse in safety-net programs will revive talks of tackling fraud before the end of the year. But many are skeptical any such bill will ultimately reach the president’s desk.

The Trump administration has decided that being homeless isn’t a medical condition and can’t count as an automatic out from having to meet new Medicaid work requirements.

HUD wants to shift federal funding for people experiencing homelessness from permanent housing assistance to temporary housing and services.

The Senate Agriculture Committee failed to advance this year’s farm bill out of committee on Thursday amid Republican absences and unified Democratic opposition to the bill’s food aid provisions.

The rise of AI in the healthcare industry has prompted worries about who’s overseeing these tools and whether people are being improperly denied treatments or cut off from care.

The lawsuit, co-led by California, New York and the District of Columbia, alleges a new federal data-sharing scheme is aiding mass surveillance efforts.

The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.

A federal judge has declined to stop the Trump administration from requiring that chronically ill Medicaid patients prove that they are physically unable to work in order to keep their insurance.