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Federal cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program could cause some DC-area families to lose an average of $187 in monthly benefits.
Middle-Income Seniors Face a Gap in Housing and Health Supports By 2029, the US will be home to 14.4 million middle-income seniors. Two-thirds will have chronic health conditions.When Employment Is Unstable or Low-Paying, Work Requirements Don’t Lift People from Poverty Temporary or contractual jobs that lack benefits, job security, and child care present challenges to public housing residents.The Large Overlaps between Opioid Use Disorder, Mental Illness, and Parenting Young Children A new study finds more than half a million adults with opioid use disorder are parents living with children younger than 18.Can We Design Student Loan Forgiveness to Target Low-Income Families? Proposals to forgive student debt have been criticized for disproportionately benefiting high-income families.New Hampshire Residents Who Lose Medicaid under Work Requirements Will Likely Face Limited Employer-Sponsored Insurance Options New Hampshire is moving forward with implementing work requirements for Medicaid enrollees.Anything plus Statistics Is Better Than Anything: A Q&A with Rob Santos and Tim Triplett Urban's Rob Santos and Tim Triplett were recently elected to leadership positions in two prominent statistics-related associations.