…in the coming months. Harwood said Kansas has dealt with declining rural populations since the early 1900s, as people moved away from the country and into more urban areas. He…

…Available from: https://www.kff.org/state-health-policy-data/stateindicator/health-insurancecoverage-population-0-64/↩︎ Bureau of Labor Statistics, Mid-Atlantic Information Office. Consumer Price Index historical tables for U.S. city average (1967=100), Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) (not seasonally…

…ex-urban and rural areas. The U.S. spends even less on subsidizing housing than it does on subsidizing food. Yet both programs have been targeted for cuts by the Republican-run Congress….

…detailed in a recent Urban Institute report, however, the net impact of the program is overly generous payments to MA plans absent any clear impact on quality.34 Furthermore, as designed, the…

…Without the enhancements, CBO projects that 3.8 million more people will be uninsured in 2035. According to the Urban Institute, the number of Black people who are uninsured in 2026…

…2020 Jeep Gladiator pickup truck hit and killed Eva Barcza near her suburban New Jersey home. Barcza had been taking a walk, like so many Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic….

…Production and Nonsupervisory Employees, Total Private and Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average,” FRED | St. Louis Fed Note that even if the…

…drug payment rates to a percent of Medicare rates. The Urban Institute has conducted modeling in various reports suggesting significant savings from capping rates within private insurance plans. This approach has been…

…in 2024. That’s 33% of all households. These households spent at least 30% of their total income on rent or mortgage payments and utilities. The Department of Housing and Urban…

…index for all urban wage earners (CPI-W), this cut amounts to 4.2%. Without indexation, any burden on employers from this wage standard has fallen considerably since its adoption, providing a…