Nationwide, states are racing to win their share of a new $50 billion rural health fund. But helping rural hospitals, as originally envisioned, is quickly becoming a quaint idea.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed by President Donald Trump in July, brings sweeping Medicaid changes that will pose ...

Head Start programs that serve more than 58,000 of the nation’s neediest preschoolers are facing a cutoff of federal funding ...

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” signed into law in 2025 included a work requirement for able-bodied adults without children to remain eligible for Medicaid, restoring the link between ...

One of the main reasons you can’t qualify for Medicaid is that your income exceeds the program’s limits. Medicaid is designed for people with low or very limited income. Each state sets its own income ...

New York-based Cedar launched Cedar Cover, a digital platform designed to streamline coverage and financial aid access for hospital patients, on Oct.

A team of Arizona Republic reporters fanned out across metro Phoenix to talk to the unhoused. Here are their stories.

Texas officials say food stamp benefits, which go to 1.7 million children, would not be distributed in November under an ...

The struggles of Alabama’s rural hospitals are not a new problem but there are new factors - some that could hurt their ...