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Byline: Jacob Bogage, Jeff Stein, Dan Diamond President-elect Donald Trump's economic advisers and congressional Republicans have begun preliminary discussions about making significant changes to Medicaid, food stamps and other federal [...]

On October 23, 2024, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $276 million in available funding for California water infrastructure projects. When combined with the $269 million it announced on [...]

The government greatly increased a grant to encourage more immigrants to return home. Critics say it sends the wrong message and, in any case, may not tempt many refugees. Sweden, [...]

A new study shows that the temporary increase in the credit in 2021 empowered some mothers to move on from unwanted partners. A temporary financial benefit for parents during the [...]

In recent months there have been loud and numerous calls for innovative finance models to be developed in order to release funding for the social housing sector. Thus, many will [...]

On October 24th, The General Assembly convened in Raleigh to pass the second Hurricane Helene relief bill, Senate Bill 743. The House and Senate passed the legislation unanimously, and it [...]

In Ontario, employees may be entitled to Short-Term Disability (STD) and Long-Term Disability (LTD) benefits if they are unable to work due to illness, injury, or a medical condition. These [...]

Earlier this year, the Department of Health and Human Services ('HHS') released a final rule under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act ('ACA'), which prohibits discrimination in health programs [...]

Sick of Brisbane being dubbed the sleepy city? The proposal for 24/3 precinct operating hours will make this a thing of the past. Queensland Premier Steven Miles has announced AU$1.6 [...]

Changes to Medicare Part D (Part D) under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) could complicate group health plan sponsors' Part D creditable coverage determinations going forward. Thankfully, sponsors [...]

The Advanced Propulsion Centre UK (APC) and the Department for Business and Trade have announced an £85.8 million-pound package of investment for the automotive industry to enable innovative zero-emission vehicle [...]

Introduction For firms in the United States, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has released a flood of funding for clean energy demonstration and deployment. Tens of billions of dollars in [...]

Background of the Build America, Buy America Act (BABA) As part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed by Congress on November 15, 2021, BABA established a domestic content [...]

Byline: JILLIAN ROBERTS Research professor of educational psychology at the University of Victoria. She is also a practising registered psychologist in B.C. and Alberta. She is known for her expertise [...]

Byline: JUSTINE HUNTER, MIKE HAGER VICTORIA, VANCOUVER -- The B.C. government rolled out its election-year budget with financial relief for families and businesses and record spending on health and education, [...]

Mayor Eric Adams told state lawmakers in Albany that New York City needed $4.6 billion just to pay for half of its yearly costs related to the migrant influx. With [...]

The call from two main farmers' unions came after President Emmanuel Macron's government announced new financial aid and plans to loosen regulations to end the nationwide protests. France's main farmers' [...]

Most of the borrowers who will benefit from the latest wave of relief are teachers, nurses, firefighters and others in public service. President Biden on Friday canceled nearly $5 billion [...]

The Agriculture Department has warned that millions of eligible pregnant and postpartum women and their children could risk missing out on nutrition assistance if Congress does not increase funding. For [...]

Byline: Tony Romm The Biden administration plans to more aggressively pursue thousands of small businesses with past-due pandemic loans, reversing an earlier policy that saw the U.S. government stop short [...]

Rents have surged and homelessness is at record heights, but fewer of the poorest tenants are getting housing assistance -- in stark contrast to growth in other safety net programs. [...]

More than 80 percent of licensed child care providers in the United States received the grants, which they used to pay bills and raise wages for staff. As the U.S. [...]

Byline: Kaela Resendes President Biden signed off on a COVID-19 relief bill that was passed by Congress earlier this week. The bill is packed full of $1.9 trillion worth of [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Ontario doctors who received loans from the province during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to cover increased costs and offset revenue losses stemming from [...]

On the day fans engaged in a reverse boycott at Oakland Coliseum, Nevada's State Senate voted to approve $380 million in public funding for a Las Vegas Strip stadium. On [...]

Work requirements for federal assistance programs do not, well, work. ''Stable employment among recipients subject to work requirements proved the exception, not the norm,'' according to a 2016 review of [...]

Seen from outside Washington, the debt ceiling battle might seem like an abstract argument between the political parties over federal spending and deficits. But for millions of low-income Americans who [...]