The Social Security Administration (SSA) is overwhelming its local offices by forcing millions more people to seek in-person ...

No one should be forced to choose between taking care of their health or paying for other basic needs, like food or utilities ...

Funding for programs structured as block grants tends to shrink significantly over time, an investigation of several decades ...

A proposal by the Trump Administration to cut off rental assistance after two years even if participants still can’t afford ...

House Republicans’ budget reconciliation legislation would cut assistance that helps children in families with low incomes get enough to eat, see a doctor when they are sick, and in other ways meet ...

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President Trump’s proposal to rescind $9.4 billion in previously approved spending, which the Senate is expected to vote on this week, is a bad idea for several reasons, as noted in a recent ...

The long-term outlook for the Social Security trust funds has declined slightly, the latest annual report from the program’s trustees shows. Social Security can pay full benefits for nine more years ...

Housing is a basic human need, and no one should be turned away from resources and services that help them obtain stable, affordable housing because of their identity. The Fair Housing Act of 1968, a ...

Iowa lawmakers have approved a new state budget that lays bare the growing cost of the state’s tax-cut agenda: to balance the books, they’re now planning to use over $900 million in state reserves to ...