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988 Lifeline Struggles to Keep Up as Suicide Crisis Deepens
More than 49,000 deaths resulted from suicide in 2023, part of a broader crisis that has seen suicide deaths increase by 31 percent over the past two...
Senate Panel Confronts Social Security's $30 Trillion Crisis
Why it matters: The Senate Finance Subcommittee held a Social Security hearing on June 24, 2026, confronting a $30 trillion unfunded liability that...
House Panel Examines Home Visiting Program as 2027 Deadline Looms
Congress faces a ticking clock on the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program. The House Work and Welfare Subcommittee held a MIECHV...
Hearing Reveals $3B Waste and a Black Market for Food Stamps
A House subcommittee hearing on combating waste, fraud, and abuse in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on June 25, 2026, revealed sharp...
DOD's Growing Child Care Program Leaves Providers in the Dark
The Department of Defense's military child care assistance program has grown substantially, but a critical gap in how the agency communicates with providers...
Staring Down Insolvency For Social Security 2032
The insolvency clock for Social Security is ticking faster than previously expected. A new trustees report moved the projected depletion date of the Old-Age...
SNAP Fraud Efforts Examined Amid Benefit Cuts
The House is preparing to examine federal efforts to combat supplemental nutrition assistance fraud just as the Trump administration has moved aggressively...
New Trump Accounts Plan May Favor Higher-Income Families More
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More Tracking Needed to Assess Human Trafficking Programs
Each year, tens of thousands of human trafficking survivors in the United States need access to behavioral health care, including trauma therapy and...
Committee Examines Federal Funding Threats to Territories
More than 3.5 million Americans living in U.S. territories — Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the...
New Trump Budget Ends Decades-Old Hunger Relief Program
A federal program that has delivered 2.5 billion meals and 273 million nights of shelter since 1983 is facing its most direct elimination threat yet. The...
Joint Subcommittee Hearing Signals Broader Agenda
The House Ways and Means Committee has scheduled a joint subcommittee hearing for Wednesday, June 10, at 2:00 p.m. in 1100 Longworth House Office Building,...
Bisignano Will Testify In Hearing About Social Security Crisis
The House Ways and Means Committee's joint Social Security and Work & Welfare subcommittees are set to hear from Social Security Administration Commissioner...
House Mandates Child Care Fund Cutoffs for Repeat Violations
The House passed the No Funds for Repeat Child Care Violations Act on Wednesday, 217–207, with Republicans united and Democrats nearly unanimous in...
Social Security COLA Formula Mismatches Retiree Needs
Every year, a formula buried in federal statute quietly determines whether tens of millions of Americans can keep up with rising prices. The Social Security...
House Advances Anti-Fraud Package and Agriculture Spending Bill
The House cleared H.Res. 1333 on a strict party-line vote Wednesday, opening the floor to a bundle of legislation targeting fraud in child care, student...
House Advances Four-Bill Anti-Fraud Package
The House voted 207-207 Wednesday to advance a package of four bills targeting waste, fraud, and abuse across federal social programs, with every Republican...
Senate Weighs Benefits Cliff Fix Amid GOP-Dem Divide
Why it matters: The Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee held a hearing on federal benefits cliffs on Wednesday, June 3, examining how...