The financial balance of U.S. states faces a significant challenge as recent federal policies shift the responsibility and costs of essential social programs onto their budgets. The question is not if ...

President Donald Trump’s new budget package cuts funding for programs like Medicaid and SNAP through work requirements.

Moniteau County Public Administrator Cher Caudel warned federal lawmakers last month it would take time to implement changes ...

President Donald Trump’s new budget package cuts funding for programs like Medicaid and SNAP through work requirements.

A year ago, U.S. District Judge Doug Harpool ruled that Missouri was violating federal law by failing to properly operate the ...

Tens of thousands in Missouri and Kansas are at risk of losing Medicaid. We sit down with Swope Health's CEO Jaron Ravin to ...

Missouri voters expanded Medicaid in 2020 but this new bill slashes it. Single moms in Richland and veterans in Iberia will ...

President Donald Trump’s "Big, Beautiful Bill" shifts more Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program costs to states.

What are the implications of the SNAP-Ed program's elimination? For starters, 1 million Missouri residents were helped by the ...

U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood is voicing full-throated support for the massive Republican tax and spending bill, despite past ...

Congressional Republicans have set a "slow-rolling avalanche" tumbling toward their own constituents and state-level colleagues as they desperately tried to deflect blame for passing Donald Trump's ...

The recently signed megabill strips away tens of billions of federal dollars for SNAP and Medicaid and expects states to simply figure it out.