Month: February 2020

“Does the federal government have the actual authority to do that?”

They could lose coverage for a month or more during the year.

Abbott says the homeless need mental health care. Advocates say Medicaid expansion would help

The Missouri House of Representatives’ Health and Mental Health Policy Committee on Monday afternoon heard public testimony on a bill that would place eligible children in Mo HealthNet for one-year periods.

UnitedHealthcare is dropping hundreds of other doctors in its central and northern New Jersey Medicaid physician network. The move is forcing thousands of low-income patients to forsake longtime physicians. The insurer has been barred by the state from signing up new Medicaid clients.

Texas spent about $862 million in federal and state funds from a program for families in need, according to a new report . But only 6% of those funds were

When some fast-food workers in New York went on strike one morning in 2012, they had no idea it was the beginning of an unusual movement that would propel an economic revolution.

Nationally, among the 6.5 million custodial single parents who were awarded child support in 2015, only 43.5% received all of the child support money that was due.

In the midst of a punishing housing crisis and deepening concerns about displacement, a program to give free legal advice to those facing eviction helped nearly 730 people stay in their homes in a six-month span last year. But enabling universal access to a full menu of services requires more investment, Supervisor Dean Preston said.

More than 4,600 people in Missouri are waiting for a public defender.

Starting Monday, low-income immigrants who are on public benefits— or will one day need them— will be denied a visa or green card, despite having entered the U.S. legally.

The pending federal rule changes could push a million kids off free or reduced-price school meals, at least temporarily.

Small rural hospital administrators are concerned that if the changes go through, they may have to close, one expert said.

Kids need at least 14 doctor visits by age 6, pediatricians say.

Louisiana’s health department has sent nearly 24,000 Medicaid recipients letters warning they will lose coverage if they don’t prove they qualify for the program, marking a full year of a

Advocates for the poor sound alarm as the GOP-led Legislature weighs plans to limit access to most social welfare programs.

The president has reveled in the declines in Americans receiving aid from several government programs in recent years, citing his economic policies as a catalyst.

The firm that staffed the emergency room with doctors at Nashville General Hospital was taking more patients to court for unpaid medical bills than any other hospital or practice in the city.

Half of all charity care in Chicago falls to one health system.

Georgia’s maternal mortality rate is higher than the U.S. average. A Medicaid limit and OBGYN shortage in rural areas are factors.

“We’re losing a shocking number of mothers each year.”

A lot is riding on the experiment, because the sickest 1 percent of the population accounted for 22 percent of $3.3 trillion in national health-care spending, according to a recent federal estimate.

At community colleges, many students are spending nights on friends’ couches or sleeping in cars. Advocates are pushing for solutions, including safer places to park overnight.

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the Trump administration unlawfully allowed Arkansas to impose a work requirement on recipients of coverage under the state’s medicaid expansion program, affirming a lower court’s 2019 ruling.

President Trump’s budget for fiscal year 2021, which starts in October, would cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid.

After jobless claims spiked in the Great Recession, the state changed its system to pay less for a shorter duration to fewer recipients.

Diversion and community corrections keep nonviolent offenders out of prison, but often impose high costs on participants that can push them into poverty

If lower-income students had a boost like those for children of alumni, selective colleges would be far less economically stratified, a study suggests.

Students at historically black colleges and universities in Texas receive a disproportionately lower amount of money from the state compared with

Low income Detroiters facing foreclosure are closer to getting significant relief from back property taxes.

Millions of Americans face eviction while rent prices around the country continue to rise, turning everything ‘upside down’ for many

Advocates say problem dates back generations, and is rooted in poverty and racism.

As rents skyrocket, more homeless people are trying to find work, even if it means becoming part of the process that forces people out of their homes.