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In suing to halt restrictions in five states, the plaintiffs argued that the Trump administration violated laws authorizing SNAP and governing changes in policies.

In this week’s issue, the federal government is finding new ways to cut the programs that keep the sickest and poorest Americans alive, while a celebrated cancer screening test marketed to healthiest and wealthiest just failed its first big trial.

In states that have long refused to expand Medicaid to more low-income adults, people in the program aren’t subject to new rules under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act requiring them to prove they’re working in order to get and keep coverage. That’s not stopping Florida lawmakers from trying to adopt Medicaid work requirements anyway.

President Donald Trump’s administration is expanding its crackdown on state Medicaid programs to New York, launching a fraud probe in the state a week after it said it was freezing nearly $260 million in Medicaid funding in Minnesota over similar accusations.

A proposed rule by the Department of Housing and Urban Development would allow strict time limits and work requirements as a condition for rental subsidies, a move that critics say could put millions of people at risk of losing such aid amid record-high housing costs and homelessness.

A new paper from the Cleveland Federal Reserve looks at how U.S. households managed rent inflation from 2019 through 2023, a span which saw the highest year-over-year rent growth in recent history.

Across the nation, states face an immense task and high costs to prepare for the Jan. 1 kickoff of new Medicaid eligibility mandates affecting millions of lower-income adults in the government-funded health care program.

With more states limiting what consumers can buy with food assistance benefits, Hershey and Keurig Dr Pepper are closely monitoring the potential sales impact.

Bills in at least seven GOP-led states would require lessons on the “success sequence.” Critics say it ignores systemic challenges and stigmatizes non-traditional families.

A growing split between low-to-middle-income families and wealthy households is changing who has access to homeownership now.

This week, I’m focusing on a question that sounds like science fiction but is increasingly being asked in serious policy circles: Will artificial intelligence kill us all?

The California state Legislature has a new bicameral legislative caucus that will focus on issues affecting children and their wellbeing