This affects your neighborhood. This affects people that you may care about in a bad way. What are you going to do? If you limit access to care, it is going to affect somebody that you may know.” ...

Gov. JB Pritzker previously ended a state administered 1% grocery tax that was passed on to local governments, impacting ...

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This is the first in a three-part series on potential local impacts of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” The Commercial-News will zoom out and take a bird’s eye view of the key ...

While most of the state’s attention focused on what the Republican House majority was doing to Medicaid, a much more direct ...

Experts have said that raising the age limit on work requirements and shifting funding to states could have far-reaching ...

Nearly 100 million Mexicans are set to take part in an unprecedented election on June 1 that will reshape the country's ...

"We are not cutting SNAP," Johnson said in a May 25 episode of CBS News’ "Face the Nation." "We're working in the elements of fraud, waste and abuse. SNAP for example, listen to the statistics, in ...

Lawmakers joined housing advocates to push for a package of housing bills to expand rent stabilization statewide and strengthen assistance programs for seniors and New Yorkers with disabilities.

Lawmakers joined housing advocates to push for a package of housing bills to expand rent stabilization statewide and ...

Here are some of the consequences that will follow if Congress cuts a key federal nutrition program, as proposed in the U.S.

The House-passed Republican reconciliation plan would cut nearly $300 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...