Government shutdown expected to delay energy assistance for low-income households

Energy assistance directors are urging utilities to suspend service shut-offs as low-income families brace for higher bills ...
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Low-income, first-generation students could lose vital college resource under Trump’s budget cuts

Mission High School graduating senior Mariana Aguilar, the daughter of working-class Colombian immigrants, had always wanted to make her parents proud by becoming one of the first in their family to ...
WRAL

Wake will drop 6 high schools from funding program for lower-income schools as budget tightens

Rule changes in Wake County will cut at least $2.6 million in funding to six high schools under a federal program designed to help lower-income students. The Wake County's public school system, the ...
KREM

SNAP concerned about proposed federal budget that would cut program funding for low, moderate-income households

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners (SNAP) is calling attention to a proposed federal budget that would eliminate the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. The ...
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Philanthropy grant to add 10,000 preschool slots in WA to backfill budget cuts

ECEAP offers preschool for low-income kids ages 3 and 4. The support announced Wednesday is expected to cost more than $1 billion over 10 years.
The Daily Iowan

Federal budget cuts limit access to nutrition education programs in Iowa

Elimination of SNAP-Ed funding leaves food pantries across the state uncertain of how to fill funding gaps, as many of which ...
MLive

Program giving new mothers $500 monthly will soon expand with $270M state budget boost

LANSING, MI - Tucked inside the 1,000-plus page state budget for 2025-26 is a “game-changing investment” in young mothers. Rx Kids - a program providing prenatal and infant support to expecting and ...