A federal judge on Monday struck down multiple state pilot programs that restricted Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients from using their benefits to buy unhealthy foods. Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins incorrectly interpreted federal law when approving limits on what SNAP recipients could purchase with their benefits,…
Somewhere in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, a small steel-town school district of about 1,400 kids, a school board member is looking at a budget line that didn’t exist a decade ago. In 2014, the district had approximately seven English Learner or “EL” students. In 2024, that number crossed 200. Charleroi is a small story with a national…
California state lawmakers on Thursday approved a bill to preserve federal funding for the state’s Medicaid program amid concerns that the proposal may cause private health insurance premiums to soar. The new bill responds to recent federal rules mandating that California overhaul its managed care organization (MCO) tax, which the state collects from health insurance…
The Senate passed a piece of bipartisan legislation Monday that aimed to lower the cost of housing. The upper chamber passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act in a 85-5 vote, which aimed to tackle the housing affordability crisis by cutting red tape and increasing the housing supply, expanding loans to build housing and curbing Wall…
New Yorkers are set to keep paying for prostitutes’ STD treatments and birth control. Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration will spend an additional $1.5 million in tax-dollars on prostitutes’ healthcare, reviving the $1 million pilot program without legislative approval, The New York Post reported Friday. New York State Department of Public Health, Hochul’s office,…
