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Don’t pull the plug on internet access for 23M families
3+ day, 16+ hour ago —...VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images By Bruce Harrell and John Giles... ...doesn’t act to fund the Affordable Connectivity Program, or ACP.... ...Bruce Harrell is the mayor of Seattle and chair of the United States... ...John Giles is mayor of Mesa, Arizona, and a trustee of the United...
Data for dementia: State’s brain health registry helps prep for an aging population
3+ day, 13+ hour ago —..., founder and director of the Virginia Memory Project and assistant... ...The Virginia Memory Project, a statewide epidemiological brain-health... ...The Virginia Memory Project collects information on the prevalence... ...The Memory Project also features a voluntary survey for caregivers...
States get streamlined access to Treasury’s Do Not Pay system for unemployment
3+ day, 19+ hour ago —...Galeanu Mihai via Getty Images The Departments of Labor and Treasury... ...The Government Accountability Office estimated that up to $135 billion... ...the Do Not Pay system via the UI Integrity Data Hub, an existing,... ...of State Workforce Agencies that is meant to help states curb fraud...
As a critical deadline approaches, the Biden administration issues a flurry or regulations
3+ day, 14+ hour ago —...Justin Sullivan via Getty Image The Biden administration has been... ...and former President Donald Trump used it to overturn 16 Obama administration... ...The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released new regulations... ...Bush administration, but, under Biden, the Supreme Court has made...
As cities ban them from public spaces, homeless people scatter in search of refuge
3+ day, 17+ hour ago —...John Parke and Tiffany Deen are among about 20 unhoused people who... ...John Parke, known as “Cowboy,” is always ready to pack up and move... ...In addition to Clarkston, the Northwest Justice Project, which provides... ...Howard Belodoff, the Idaho Legal Aid attorney who won the case against...
Illinois' child welfare agency goes on a hiring spree
4+ day, 13+ hour ago —...The Department of Children and Family Services has suffered from... ...Pritzker, a Democrat in his second term, has made new hires a central... ...Jassen Strokosch, the DCFS chief of staff, told Route Fifty that... ...Others involved communications between DCFS and Central Management...
AC, power banks, mini fridges: State equips Medicaid patients for climate change
4+ day, 17+ hour ago —...By Samantha Young ,KFF Health News This story was first published... ...by KFF Health News.... ..., director of the Medicaid and Health Safety Net Reform Initiative... ...and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on a visit to Sacramento...
As property tax bills rise, states look for long-term solutions
4+ day, 14+ hour ago —...on the agenda of many lawmakers from states in the Mountain West... ...By Riley Judd, The Pew Charitable Trusts Property tax relief is high... ...Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen (R) kicked off 2024 with the ambitious... ...Mark Gordon (R). ...
State, local govs crack down on menthol cigarettes by pumping prices up
4+ day, 15+ hour ago —...Joe Raedle via Getty Images Two years after the Food and Drug Administration... ...newspaper and magazine ads, according to a 2022 report from the American Heart... ...of Health Deputy Commissioner Heidi Ritchie said, CBS News reported... ...cancer, said Avenel Joseph, vice president of policy at the Robert...