The Trump administration is drafting a Child Care and Development Fund rule that would, for the first time, let low-income married couples collect child-care aid when one parent stays home, according to The New York Times, which cited people familiar with the plan and a draft document it reviewed. The C.C.D.F. was built to help […] The post Trump’s $9,000 Child-Care Draft Targets Low-Income Married Families appeared first on StoneZone .
The Trump administration is drafting a Child Care and Development Fund rule that would, for the first time, let low-income married couples collect child-care aid when one parent stays home, according to The New York Times , which cited people familiar with the plan and a draft document it reviewed. The C.C.D.F. was built to help poor and working-class parents work. Under current rules it only counts care outside the home. Officials would add a new category, “parent-based child care,” about $9,000 per child a year, if one spouse works at least 35 hours a week and household income stays under the existing state cap, usually 85% of median income, sometimes closer to 60%. If it goes forward as written, it would be the first federal…Open
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) enrollment dropped by more than 13 percent in just one year.
The United States’ largest food assistance program, SNAP, has seen a dramatic enrollment decline due to new work requirements and administrative hurdles introduced by President Donald J. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: - DETAIL: This reduction follows the introduction of stricter requirements. Under new federal rules, adults aged between 55 and 64 and parents of children aged between 14 and 17 must now meet work, volunteer, or education requirements in order to qualify for the food stamps program. Specifically, new data released this week revealed that enrollment fell from 42.2 million in May 2025 to 36.6 million in May this year, much faster than anticipated. Arizona experienced the largest drop in…Open
The Child Care and Development Fund, the U.S. government's main source of funding to help low-income families pay for childcare, serves over 1.6 million children in a typical month.
Nonprofit developers are hauling longtime low-income renters into court to kick them out of a city-owned Venice fourplex, all to build a $133 million affordable housing project that the city's own attorney has called "infeasible and unauthorized." Mary Alice Crowe moved into her apartment near the Venice Canals forty-three years ago. She was twenty-nine. She […] The post Venice tenants face eviction from their own homes to clear way for $133 million housing project backed by Nithya Raman appeared first on American Almanac .
Nonprofit developers are hauling longtime low-income renters into court to kick them out of a city-owned Venice fourplex, all to build a $133 million affordable housing project that the city's own attorney has called "infeasible and unauthorized." Mary Alice Crowe moved into her apartment near the Venice Canals forty-three years ago. She was twenty-nine. She raised her son there, built a life there, and at seventy-one she assumed she would stay. Allan Phillips, her neighbor in the same small building, has lived there for thirty-five years. Both pay below-market rent on city-owned land. Both now face a legal action filed by nonprofit developers who want them gone, and who argue they cannot afford to wait for the tenants' own lawsuit…Open
AI:In another crushing blow to the working class, Los Angeles officials and nonprofit developers are weaponizing the legal system to steamroll longtime low-income tenants in Venice. These residents, some having occupied their homes for over four decades, are being dragged into court to make room for a massive $133 million "affordable housing" project backed by Nithya Raman. Even more egregious is that the city's own attorney has flagged this entire endeavor as unauthorized and infeasible, yet the bureaucratic machine pushes forward regardless of the human cost. This isn't about helping people; it is a coordinated displacement effort where existing residents are treated like obstacles in a high-stakes real estate game orchestrated by radical…Open
The reversal of the funding pause came after the administration faced repeated setbacks in a suit challenging the decision, which could have jeopardized programs for low-income households.
For years, the economy has looked K-shaped . There's new evidence that some of that divide is beginning to narrow. - The wage-growth gap between lower- and middle-income workers has disappeared — with pay gains among lower-income workers nearly matching those of their higher-income counterparts. - Spending growth among lower- and higher-income households is the most similar in years. Why it matters: A resilient labor market is chipping away at one dimension of the K-shaped economy, even as the wealth divide remains firmly intact. Source: Bank of America Institute By the numbers: Bank of America Institute, drawing on anonymized customer deposit account data, estimates that lower-income households saw after-tax wage growth accelerate…
Women, low-income households, and black and Latino New Yorkers are adversely and disproportionately affected by a relative dearth of chocolate-flavored condoms?
"SNAP Havens": The federal government spent over $100 billion during fiscal year 2025 on the SNAP program. A patchwork of variations in state requirements may make some localities more desirable destinations for people who choose welfare over working.
Housing officials were told to exclude emotional support animals and tighten the definition of a service animal when granting accommodations for disabled tenants.