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Federal employees should look to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) as the primary official source for 2026 pay tables and effective dates; OPM posts GS, locality, special rate and related pay m...
Federal Poverty Guidelines (commonly called the FPL) for 2026 are published for three geographic sets: the 48 contiguous states + D.C., Alaska, and Hawaii; those figures are used to determine eligibil...
The federal poverty guidelines used for 2026 coverage are the 2025 HHS poverty guidelines; for the 48 contiguous states and D.C. the guideline for a 1‑person household in 2025 is widely reported as $1...
Available sources do not provide a nationwide, authoritative breakdown of crime rates by race per capita; major datasets in the search results (FBI, Council on Criminal Justice, state compilations) re...
The federal poverty guidelines used for 2026 coverage are the HHS “2025” poverty guidelines (published for use in 2026 benefit determinations) and list a 48‑state/D.C. baseline of $25,750 for a four‑p...
The temporary “enhanced” Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits — the ARPA/IRA-era increases that expanded eligibility above 400% of the federal poverty level (FPL) and reduced required househo...
The official 2026 Federal Poverty Guidelines (FPL) figures used by most programs are published by HHS/ASPE and summarized in federal notices; they set a 100% FPL base and specify per-person add-ons (f...
The federal poverty guidelines used for ACA subsidy eligibility in 2026 restore traditional 100%–400% of FPL rules for most enrollees unless Congress extends enhanced subsidies; eligibility therefore ...
The 2025 HHS poverty guidelines set the annual Federal Poverty Level (FPL) for the 48 contiguous states at $15,650 for a single-person household and $54,150 for an eight-person household, with per‑per...
The Trump administration’s first ten months of 2025 combined a rapid flurry of executive actions and policy shifts described by supporters as sweeping accomplishments and by critics as aggressive impl...
400% of the 2025 Federal Poverty Level (FPL) depends on household size and state; for the 48 contiguous states and D.C., the 2025 guideline lists the 100% FPL for a one‑person household as $15,650, so...
Polls and forecasters currently show Democrats favored to make gains in 2026 but not an inevitable “takeover”: several models and polling snapshots project Democrats can win the House (some forecastin...
Obamacare (ACA) premium tax credits traditionally apply to households with incomes between , but temporary policy changes enacted in 2021 expanded eligibility above 400% through the 2025 coverage year...
The 2025 HHS poverty guidelines for the 48 contiguous states (often called the Federal Poverty Level or FPL) list $15,650 as the annual FPL for a single person and add about $5,500 for each additional...
No U.S. state has legalized or intentionally decriminalized bestiality since 2010; the legal trajectory over the past decade-and-a-half has been the opposite — a steady patching of statutory gaps so t...
The official federal poverty guideline numbers used for 2026 coverage come from the 2025 HHS/ASPE poverty guidelines; for the 48 contiguous states and DC the single‑person 100% FPL figure is $15,650, ...
If Congress allows the enhanced ACA premium tax credits to expire after 2025, KFF estimates average marketplace premium payments would more than double (+114%, from $888 to $1,904), raising net annual...
Reporting and fact‑checks show no widespread, serious effort since 2020 to lower U.S. sexual‑consent ages to toddlers or similar extremes; the U.S. age of consent still ranges between 16 and 18 by sta...
The key numeric changes for 2026 center on the ACA “affordability” percentage rising from 9.02% in 2025 to 9.96% for 2026 plan years, which raises the FPL‑based safe‑harbor monthly employee contributi...
Available reporting shows there is no single list of states that universally allow “abortion up to the moment of birth”; instead, states vary — some have no term limits, some permit abortions up to vi...