The financial balance of U.S. states faces a significant challenge as recent federal policies shift the responsibility and costs of essential social programs onto their budgets. The question is not if ...

The Trump administration's recent cuts to Medicaid and SNAP are forcing states to reassess financial priorities, as federal support dwindles and the burden shifts to state budgets.

State revenue can only be spread so far, and the estimated new costs for Medicaid and SNAP are expected to be in the tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars for each state.

Nearly 268,000 Hoosiers are about to lose Medicaid, 128,000 of them are about to lose SNAP benefits, and everyone is going to ...

In fiscal year 2023, the combination of expiring federal COVID-19 pandemic aid, slowing tax revenue growth, and rising costs for Medicaid led to an increase in the share of state revenue dedicated ...

States, already facing cuts to services by Trump administration, now trying to figure out how to fit Medicaid and SNAP cuts into their budgets.