by Chabeli Carrazana | Nov 8, 2025 | Budget, Child Care, COVID Relief, Donald Trump, Layoffs, Mass Layoffs, medicaid cuts, News, SNAP
For the past year, families in need of child care assistance in Indiana have been sitting on a waitlist that has ballooned from 3,000 to 30,000 kids. It’s still climbing — and no one is coming off of it. Emily Pike, the executive director of New Hope For Families in Bloomington, which cares for children experiencing homelessness, can’t remember a time when no families were coming off the…
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by Jake Johnson | Oct 24, 2025 | ballot initiative, Billionaires, California, federal budget cuts, health care, Health Care Workers, Inequality, Medicaid, medicaid cuts, News, Taxes
A coalition of frontline healthcare workers, unions, and economists launched an effort Thursday to build support for a proposed ballot measure in California that would impose a one-time tax on the state’s billionaires to avert a looming crisis spurred by national Republicans‘ unprecedented Medicaid cuts. The proposed ballot initiative, titled “The 2026 Billionaire Tax Act…
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