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 states have been studying how to support their aging populations, but now critical federal funds won’t be available to ...

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.

Federal cuts to SNAP under the One Big Beautiful Bill will force states to consider new costs for the nutrition program.

This summer, President Donald Trump has begun to chisel back Medicaid and food stamps. On a July day in 1965, President ...

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.

A wide array of hunger and health care advocates are hoping to mitigate the effects of some provisions in Trump’s budget bill ...

Without leadership and swift, coordinated action, the state risks being overwhelmed by both the scale of the financial burden ...

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