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With the House proposing the largest Medicaid cuts in the program’s history, the health care of 79.3 million enrollees is at stake. The budget resolution to slash at least $880 billion through 2034 in health care and nutrition programs was proposed to the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and...
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Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Perhaps no state has more to lose than California in the federal budget proposal House Republicans passed this week. That spending plan sets up significant cuts to Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income people. California has taken just about every route and opportunity to...
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Siete miembros de la delegación del Congreso de Oregón firmaron una carta exigiendo protección para la Oficina de Protección Financiera del Consumidor, para permitir que la agencia federal continúe su trabajo. El Departamento de Eficiencia Gubernamental cerró la oficina a principios de este mes. Jagjit Nagra, director ejecutivo del...
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Seven members of Oregon’s congressional delegation have signed a letter demanding protection for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to enable the federal agency to continue its work. The Department of Government Efficiency closed the bureau earlier this month. Jagjit Nagra, executive director of the group Oregon Consumer Justice, said...
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Una nueva investigación detalla los principales cambios potenciales para la nación si los aranceles propuestos por el presidente Donald Trump entran en vigor. Un informe de la Tax Foundation encontró que los aranceles que Trump implementó en su primer mandato han mantenido los precios “irrazonablemente altos”, aranceles que mantuvo...
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New research details the major potential changes for the nation if President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs take effect. A Tax Foundation report found tariffs Trump implemented in his first term have kept prices “unreasonably high,” tariffs former President Joe Biden maintained. In an example, a report from the Urban...
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Despite their growing popularity, consumers in New York and nationwide still face misconceptions about electric vehicles. One of the most pervasive is about colder climates reducing battery efficiency, which many energy and environmental agencies have resoundingly found false. Kate Kruk, president of the New York Capital District Electric Vehicle Association, said given the...
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Yue Stella Yu & Sameea Kamal CalMatters Lisamaría Martínez no está segura de cuándo votó en persona por última vez. Pero recuerda las botas que usó ese día: sus “fabulosas”, nuevas botas azul marino con tacones gruesos, que le provocaron ampollas en su caminata de una milla de largo...
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Yue Stella Yu & Sameea Kamal CalMatters Lisamaria Martinez isn’t sure when she last voted in person. But she remembers the boots she wore that day — her “fabulous,” new navy blue boots with chunky heels, which gave her blisters on her mile-long walk back home from the polling...