The Republican-controlled House of Representatives on May 22, 2025, passed a proposed budget that would slash funding for programs millions of Americans rely on: Medicaid, Medicare, the Affordable ...

For many Americans, Social Security represents one of the most stable sources of income during retirement. Yet the average monthly benefit for a retired worker in February 2025 sto ...

The notion that people who get government benefits should prove that they deserve them, ideally through paid labor, is now ...

Currently about 5 million Californians with Medi-Cal are eligible because of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. The 2010 health law allowed states to add adults without children or a ...

In the wee hours of Thursday, May 22, House Republicans pushed through President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” a proposal that dramatically cuts Medicaid, in part by imposing strict work ...

The Trump bill sorta makes good on Trump’s campaign sales gimmicks — offering temporary, three-year tax breaks on tips (cost: ...

The tax reform dubbed as 'One Big Beautiful Bill' by Donald Trump has far-reaching consequences that disproportionately ...

Leaders from the US Food and Drug Administration outlined a new framework for the approval process for Covid-19 vaccines that ...

Now, however, the free career training program for low-income young adults is in danger. The Trump administration proposed a significant cut to the Job Corps program following an initial call to ...

June 1 marks the 100th anniversary of a landmark parental rights Supreme Court decision. Yet federal abuses of parental ...

Instead of gutting safety-net programs needed by many to survive to fund tax cuts for the wealthy, we need a comprehensive ...

More than half of US workers feel job security pressure…preventable health crises costing large numbers of US lives…mental ...