By making the federal health law’s Medicaid expansion optional for states, the U.S. Supreme Court has cast doubt on decades of established state-federal ...
Angela Evans of the Coalition on Human Needs reflects on a rally in DC focused on protecting American's families and restoring balance in the federal budget.
How big a slice of the federal budget pie gets served to kids? Julee Newberger breaks down government spending for kids based on an event at Urban Institute
The Forum for Youth Investment's Elizabeth Gaines takes a look at two annual children's budgets, released in the summer of 2012. The bottom line: We need to ...
Food banks and soup kitchens alone won’t lift families out of hunger and poverty. We need a federal budget that supports the most vulnerable among us, according ...
Timothy Warfield, executive director at the National Association for State Community Services Programs (NASCSP), and Mark Schmeissing, NASCSP senior policy analyst, ...
The future of the nation’s largest health insurance program -- Medicaid -- hangs in the balance of the Supreme Court’s decision on the 2010 health law.
Formed to fight nondefense discretionary (NDD) cuts in the federal budget, many human needs organizations have formed an NDD Summit. To accompany a sign-on letter to ...
Lindsey M. Burke, the Will Skillman Fellow in education at The Heritage Foundation, asserts in this commentary that providing educational control to families through ...
In this webcast series, Washington Post columnist and former speechwriter and senior advisor to President Goerge W. Bush Michael Gerson discusses poverty, ...
In a new commentary series on the fight to end childhood hunger and food insecurity in America, Joel Berg, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and ...
Politicians aren’t looking to curb spending by looking to billionaires like Warren Buffett, Wendy Fontaine says. Instead “[t]hey are looking to people ...
Because House Republicans included cuts to a provision that coordinates essential nutrition assistance with other safety net programs, 280,000 children would no ...
