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Winter utility bills, ongoing inflation and easing pandemic-related supports are putting pressure on Ohioans household budgets. Food banks report struggling to meet demand. State lawmakers recently provided $25-million in the year-end spending bill to help address ongoing food hardship. ...

This week, Congress gave final approval to a plan to further promote food donations and reduce waste. In South Dakota, a local food shelf says individuals can do their part by following key tips before dropping off items. The federal policy extends liability protections to companies, farmers, restaurants and others who want to donate extra food but worry about legal fallout if someone becomes sick. ...

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Heat waves are deadlier when people don’t have access to cooling.

The Child Tax Credit provides Americans with children a little extra financial support. Experts are now studying what happened when that support was increased.

Metro Phoenixs rising rents, quick-moving eviction process and lack of legal support for renters led to a crisis that started before the pandemic even began.

Across the U.S., states are seeing an increase in school restrictions, particularly on books and critical race theory, with Oklahoma having at least 13 pieces of legislation since 2020 pertaining

As California lawmakers consider AB 2179, which would extend eviction protections to June 30 for hundreds of thousands of renters made vulnerable by the pandemic’s economic disruptions, tens of thousands of renters who might need assistance remain ei

New research may undermine arguments that the child tax credit encouraged unemployment. 

Jon Eriquezzo is having trouble getting the food he needs through national supply chains to deliver nutritious meals to seniors and people who are homebound, and as president of the Hillsborough Meals on Wheels, that’s a problem. But locally, at...