A participant in California attends a Pathway to Employment orientation offered by the Center for Employment Opportunities, which runs a program that provides cash assistance to those recently ...

Learn how Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) works, its uses in government assistance programs like SNAP, and how it aids ...

With all the big changes happening politically and economically, many American families are worried that programs they have counted on in the past may go away — and they could go hungry because of it.

In 2015, Kansas passed the HOPE (Hope, Opportunity and Prosperity for Everyone) Act, which made it harder for the state’s neediest residents to access federal food and cash assistance funding. Find ...

Indigenous people in the United States experience one of the highest maternal mortality rates of any ethnic group. A report filed this year by the Washington State Department of Health found that ...

California is spending $278.4 million this year on its Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants program that provides state-funded payments largely to qualified elderly and disabled non-citizens who ...

The number of families receiving cash assistance from the state has dropped tremendously in the past 13 years, from more than 80,000 monthly recipients to fewer than 12,000. That's not because poverty ...

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When Alana Turner’s son, Ace, was a baby, she had to boil bottled water to give him a warm bath — the water from the tap was contaminated with lead. But more difficult, she recalls, was having to go ...

Fresno State researchers analyzed the impact of the privately-funded a guaranteed basic income program, an anti-poverty ...