Commentary: Families with consistent support are healthier, more productive and better able to escape poverty. Safety nets ...

Nonprofits deliver essential services across the U.S. This piece explores why they are central to the social safety net—and what happens when we underinvest in them.

San Diego County must offer a safety net for residents losing access to food and healthcare benefits because of President Trump's H.R. 1 bill.

Starting in 2027, work requirements kick in for certain beneficiaries on Medicaid, while new work rules for the SNAP food assistance program took effect on Nov. 1. These reforms mandated by the One ...

Urban safety-net hospitals will be in the firing line when sweeping Medicaid funding cuts outlined in the summer’s One Big Beautiful Bill take effect, according to an analysis published Monday. In ...

North Country HealthCare is the “only game in town” for care delivery in some of the regions it serves, said Dr. Jennifer Cortes, quality and population health medical officer at the federally ...

Though the impact on rural facilities has received more focus from lawmakers, the majority of hospitals that are most susceptible to the funding cuts operate in urban communities. The One Big ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Cook County Health and other safety-net health providers ...

BOSTON — A shortfall in a state fund that helps safety net hospitals pay medical costs for large numbers of uninsured and low-income patients has ballooned to nearly $290 million, according to newly ...