Volunteers can help reduce costs, but most nonprofit social service groups rely heavily on government funding.
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By relying heavily on privately run organizations to deliver social services, the government employs fewer people, reducing the size of its bureaucracy. But these partnerships can flounder.
Offering a teen in need a safe place to stay can make a difference in the long term.
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When dementia patients on Medicare enroll in hospice, they lose other crucial supports and services.
School meal waivers that started with the COVID-19 pandemic stopped with the end of the public health emergency.
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Since nutrition standards were strengthened in 2010, eating at school provides many students with healthier food than is available cheaply elsewhere. Plus, reducing stigma increases the number of kids getting fed.
As the population of older adults in the U.S. grows, more people need care.
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Republicans and Democrats have committed to making this family-friendly government benefit a little more generous. Unless lawmakers act, it will get much smaller in 2026.
It’s hard to divulge an inability to put food on the table.
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The share of low-income US families who sometimes or often didn’t have enough food to eat fell from 24.5% to 22.5% between late April and late July of 2020, a research team found.
This safety net program helps infants, toddlers and their moms eat right.
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Increasing the number of older people with both Medicaid and Medicare would mean fewer of them would be forced to skimp on the care and treatment they need.
Medicaid helps millions of low-income Americans get health care.
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The health coverage program’s enrollment soared during the three years after March 2020 due to temporary policies adopted at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Denying waivers to survivors of domestic violence can hinder their independence from their abusers.
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People who have experienced domestic violence can have trouble finding and keeping jobs because of physical injuries and their abusers’ efforts to sabotage their employment.
No big Social Security reforms have taken effect since the Reagan administration.
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Katherine Engel, American University School of Public Affairs e Taryn Morrissey, American University School of Public Affairs
Republicans are pressing for policy changes based on a misconception that hardly anyone who gets help buying groceries with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits is employed.
Associate Dean of the College of Community and Public Affairs, and Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York