A job-training program for low-income older adults has lost funding just as new work requirements to qualify for benefits such as Medicaid and food assistance are set to begin.

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

As part of the Trump administration’s sweeping new legislation that reallocates federal spending, the president slashed funding for food assistance.

Advocates say federal cuts to SNAP will hurt low-income seniors and the long-term care facilities, health care providers and ...

Like many Americans, Republicans believe that insurance should be tied to employment — and increasingly they don’t think it’s ...

Armed with talking points and instructions from their leaders, Democratic and Republican U.S. House members spread out across ...

On this day in 1965, Pzresident Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation into law that launched Medicaid, creating a U.S. health care safety net for millions of low-income Americans in what would become ...

Up to 170,000 Missourians will lose Medicaid coverage over the next decade under President Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’ Others will face new federal work requirements to receive Medicaid.

Today’s Daily discusses how medicaid cutbacks will affect families across the U.S., helping caregiver parents cope, teens and ...

Despite the late Justice Louis Brandeis's famous praise of the American political system for helping courageous states serve as "laboratories of democracy," the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

Lee Grossman, the former director of Wyoming's Medicaid program, will take over Iowa Medicaid in September as its new ...

Changes to Medicaid could leave thousands of South Dakotans uninsured and impair an already fragile rural health care system, advocates worry. But a concurrent $50 billion in federal funding for rural ...