Bipartisan legislation was introduced Monday to reverse the staffing cuts at a program that helps provide $4.1 billion in energy assistance to more than 6.7 million low-income households, 40% of which ...

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Elon Musk has left his position as head of the federal Department of Government Efficiency, voicing differences with President Trump over federal budget priorities as outlined in the latter’s “Big ...

Some influential commentators and political activists have begun to again argue that government should no longer provide essential social services to the needy, labeling such a practice an unnecessary ...

The United States remains the richest country in the world. Given that fact, we should be leading the world in helping those who are “poor,” in America and around the globe. And we have done so. That ...

Echoing a national trend, Catholic churches in the Cleveland area are seeing a flood of church closings, leaving many who serve the poor worrying how the closings will affect social-service programs, ...

US leaders have long taken some responsibility to help poor people meet basic nutritional needs. That era appears over. Jacqueline Benitez uses SNAP benefits to supplement her income as a preschool ...

MOREHEAD, Ky. — The summer after ninth grade, Zoey Griffith found herself in an unfamiliar setting: a dorm on the Morehead State University campus. There, she'd spend the months before her sophomore ...