It requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to seek federal authority through waiver and State Plan amendments under Titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to extend coverage for pregnant women between 138% and 205% of the Federal Poverty Level to up to one year postpartum,...
A living wage is a state or local wage that’s higher than the minimum wage. Similar tocost of living, the living wage is the amount an employer would need to pay an employee to avoid poverty. The goal of a living wage is to decrease poverty through increased earnings. ...
Then there was the middle class. For practical purpose, the size of the middle class in the U.S. has shrunk and many who used to belong to this social class sank below poverty line, forced to take a low paying job, had to work multiple jobs just to keep their family fed and bills...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — More than $18 million will go to 27 West Virginia health centers to strengthen health care infrastructure and assist health care in medically underserved communities, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin said.
$100-Million Federal Lab Will Bring More Science to Bear on Global Poverty and DevelopmentVirginia GewinNature magazine
which helped cut child poverty nearly in half in 2021 to its lowest level in history and narrowed racial disparities in access to the credit. The President’s Budget would restore the expanded Child Tax Credit, lifting 3 million children out of poverty and cutting taxes by an average of $2...
onMay 8, for instance, while Maryland holds its commemoration onNovember 1. But the once-local holiday gained traction nationwide during the 1950s and 1960s, when civil rights activists celebrated it as “a way to address poverty and freedom and [hark] back to our past,” acc...