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 ...

It will be up to the Legislature to decide how to spend the money the state brings in. States aren’t just facing the Medicaid and SNAP cutbacks, Delaney said. They are facing a “tsunami” of funding ...

States, already facing cuts to services by Trump administration, now trying to figure out how to fit Medicaid and SNAP cuts into their budgets.