Guaranteed income program made Texas mom realize low-income, marginalized groups were underserved for so long

Taniquewa Brewster benefited from Austin's guaranteed income pilot program, which was a initiative using tax dollars for ...
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A successful USDA program that has supported more than 533,000 affordable rental homes in rural America is being phased out

Hundreds of thousands of rural families could lose their affordable homes as mortgages the program supported expire by 2050.
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These federal programs help low-income students get to and through college. Trump wants to pull the funding

MOREHEAD, Ky. — The summer after ninth grade, Zoey Griffith found herself in an unfamiliar setting: a dorm on the Morehead State University campus. There, she’d spend the months before her sophomore ...

Illinois guaranteed income advocates push for permanent statewide cash handout program

Officials in Cook County, Illinois crafted rules for a permanent guaranteed income program, building on pilot that provided 3,250 families with $500 monthly.
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Low-Income Households Shortchanged on State Funds for Energy Savings Programs

The state’s Public Service Commission commits only 30 percent of the funding that goes into energy saving programs to low- and moderate- income New Yorkers. The rest will be earmarked for residential ...

This Thunder Bay, Ont., program helps low-income earners file their income taxes for free

The Lakehead Social Planning Council in Thunder Bay, Ont., is inviting people to participate in its community volunteer income tax program, which allows low-income earners to file their income taxes ...