The financial balance of U.S. states faces a significant challenge as recent federal policies shift the responsibility and costs of essential social programs onto their budgets. The question is not if ...

North Carolina’s rural hospitals will face $3.7 billion in Medicaid cuts and the state could be forced to end its ...

States, already facing cuts to services by Trump administration, now trying to figure out how to fit Medicaid and SNAP cuts ...

The price tag of Medicaid and SNAP climbs automatically because benefit formulas are tied to inflation and the cost of ...

There are some projected savings, but Connecticut will see some significant fiscal impacts under the new federal law.

The bill, ushered through Congress by Republican leadership and signed by Trump Friday, includes $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, ...

Missouri currently pays about 35% of the cost of covering about 900,000 people covered by traditional Medicaid. Anyone who is enrolled now in the expansion group would be covered with a 90% ...

Currently, Medicaid supports 1.5 million people in Maryland; one in nine Marylanders receive SNAP benefits. “ This bill would make energy bills more expensive, raise health care costs and ...

North Carolina Republicans supported Trump’s bill that cuts Medicaid and SNAP despite representing ... terminate Medicaid expansion if the state is forced to pick up additional costs. ...

However, the legislation offsets those costs by slashing $600 billion from Medicaid and $230 billion from SNAP over the next decade — the largest reductions in the history of both programs.

St. Louis County estimates the extra cost to the county will be more than $10 million for SNAP and $6.4 million for Medicaid, which is the equivalent of a 9.5% increase in property tax levy.