Labor and Employment

House Passes Disability Work Bill To Extend Testing Authority

The House passed H.R. 8884 by a vote of 232 to 207, advancing legislation that would extend the Social Security Administration's authority to test new...

Veterans Affairs

Chronic Homelessness Reaches Highs Despite Overall Decline

Homelessness statistics 2025 reveal a troubling paradox: while overall homelessness declined modestly from the prior year, the number of chronically...

Legislation

CRS Report Highlights Divide Over Unemployment Insurance Reform

A sprawling Congressional Research Service report reveals deep fault lines: Republicans are pursuing narrow fraud recovery while Democrats push expansive...

Government Operations

Senate Set to Vote on Ernst's Federal Fraud-Fighting Bill

S. 4952 scheduled votes represent a critical moment for Republican efforts to crack down on federal program fraud. The bill, introduced by Senator Joni...

Government Operations

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...

Social Welfare

Committee Probes Automatic Cuts to Early Childhood Program

The House Ways and Means Committee is examining a federal early childhood support program facing an existential threat from deficit-driven automatic...

Social Welfare

Family Child Care Group Hires Raben for Advocacy

The National Association for Family Child Care filed a new lobbying registration with Raben Group LLC on June 29, 2026, marking its entry into direct...

Social Welfare

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...

Legislation

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...

Agriculture

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...

Government Operations

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...

Macroeconomics

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...

Social Welfare

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...

Macroeconomics

New Trump Accounts Plan May Favor Higher-Income Families More

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Government Operations

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...

Health

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...

Government Operations

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...