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Tag: safety net

A Colorado guaranteed income program could help families, but the costs...

Jennifer C. Greenfield, University of Denver; Kaitlyn M. Sims, University of Denver; Institute for Humane Studies, and Stefan Chavez-Norgaard, University of Denver

How food assistance programs can feed families and nourish their dignity

Joslyn Brenton, Ithaca College; Alyssa Tindall, Ursinus College, and Senbagam Virudachalam, University of Pennsylvania The 2025 government shutdown drew...

Trump’s proposed cuts to work study threaten to upend a widely...

Samantha Hicks, Coastal Carolina University and Amanda Craddock, Coastal Carolina University Work study works, doesn’t it?

SNAP benefits have been cut and disrupted – causing more kids...

Jenalee Doom, University of Denver About 4 in 10 of the more than 42 million Americans who get Supplemental...

National 211 hotline calls for food assistance quadrupled in a matter...

Matthew W. Kreuter, Washington University in St. Louis and Rachel Garg, Washington University in St. Louis Between January and...

Trump was already cutting low-income energy assistance – the shutdown is...

Conor Harrison, University of South Carolina; Elena Louder, University of South Carolina; Nikki Luke, University of Tennessee, and Shelley Welton, University of...

‘Big’ legislative package shifts more of SNAP’s costs to states, saving...

Tracy Roof, University of Richmond The legislative package that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025,...

Conservatives notch 2 victories in their fight to deny Planned Parenthood...

Rachel Rebouché, Temple University Conservatives have won two important battles in their decades-long campaign against Planned Parenthood, a network...

EXPLORING NATURE

Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...

Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma