Blue states — including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts and New Mexico — are offering new state-funded health insurance premium assistance for 2026. The move blunts the ...

About 7.7 million Americans count on monthly government checks through a program for low-income seniors or people with disabilities. Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, as it's known, provided an ...

A student may be eligible for free and reduced-price school meals based on their household income and family size.

Under congressional mandate, the National Academies’ Board on Children, Youth, and Families (BCYF) and the Committee on National Statistics will conduct a consensus study to assess the impacts of the ...