Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

A local non-profit is planning to make a difference during the NFL Draft, as they aim to recover food that would go to waste and help those in our area struggling to find their next meal.

The Massachusetts Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program launched the Flexible Services Program to address food insecurity through partnerships with social service organizations under its Section 1115 demonstration waiver. We evaluated the effects of Flexible Services Program nutritional services (or Food Is Medicine programs) on health care use and costs during the first three-year program cycle (January 2020–March 2023). Our analyses pooled data on 20,403 Flexible Services Program participants from seventeen accountable care organizations. In propensity score–weighted analyses, program participation was associated with a 23 percent reduction in hospitalizations and a 13 percent reduction in emergency department visits compared with the number of hospitalizations and visits for 2,108 eligible nonparticipants. Modestly lower health care costs for Flexible Services Program participants were not statistically significant. Health care costs were $1,721 lower among participants after the COVID-19 emergency (2022–23) and $2,502 lower among adults with more than ninety days of enrollment during all study years (2020–23). These findings are important for Medicaid policy nationwide as other state Medicaid programs pursue similar Section 1115 demonstrations.

Requiring states to pay even a modest portion of SNAP benefits would radically change the program’s funding structure, abandoning the long-standing national commitment to provide low-income households...

Food insecurity is a growing issue, and teachers are taking personal responsibility to address it in their classrooms. But they need help.

City officials estimate the cuts could be worth $870 million a year in benefits.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) sent an email on March 27 to beneficiaries saying that reports that field offices were closing was an invention of fake news media.

Bella Bautista spoke to Teen Vogue about making history, and then walking away from it.

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The halt in deliveries comes after the Trump administration separately slashed $1 billion for schools and food banks to buy food from farms.

CBO provides information about projections of mandatory spending for the 2025–2034 period for programs, excluding Medicare, that are under the jurisdiction of the House Committee on Energy and Commerc...