With just a few days left in the six-week-long application window, more than 174,000 students have already applied to be a part of The Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) program when it launches ...

Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, was created in 1972 to help the nation's most vulnerable. Some features of the program ...

More than 70 million people across the United States receive Social Security benefits, whether through retirement, disability or survivor payments. As of January 2026, the average monthly payment ...

President Trump has reshaped the country’s economic policies, but the outlook for the budget remains dire. By Andrew Duehren Reporting from Washington In the first year of his second term, President ...

Social Security’s trust fund is projected to run dry in 2032, prompting a contentious reform debate replete with images of impoverished elderly and wheelchair-bound grandmothers being pushed off ...

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Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's latest federal financial disclosures show millions of dollars in newly reported assets tied to her husband’s businesses, representing a massive increase compared to ...

This week, the USDA’s Economic Research Service released its annual Rural America at a Glance report, which provides a high-level look at social and economic conditions in nonmetropolitan (rural) ...

Federal lawmakers from both parties are moving toward approving a new spending plan that maintains the U.S. Department of Education and rejects the Trump administration’s proposal to slash billions of ...

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Researchers at Boston Medical Center, working with colleagues at University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health report that US preterm birth rates rose ...