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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...
Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs) reported a combined $1.4 billion in recoveries for fiscal year 2024, driven largely by a record $961 million in criminal recoveries and unusually large criminal re...
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...
The apparent contradictions in which states spend the most or least on “welfare” arise from differing definitions and metrics: studies cite , , , and , producing different winners and losers. Using th...
National polling through early January 2026 shows Donald Trump running below majority approval in most large trackers, with averages and reputable polls clustering in the high-30s to low‑40s for “appr...
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...
“Blue states” is a media shorthand for U.S. states that systematically vote Democratic or tilt Democratic on measures like presidential margins, the Cook Partisan Voting Index, or party control of sta...
As of late 2025, the least restrictive jurisdictions are those that have codified abortion protections and layered policies that "enhance access" — notably the District of Columbia and a group of stat...
Five U.S. states currently issue Enhanced Driver’s Licenses or Enhanced ID cards (EDL/EID): Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont, and Washington, and those cards are explicitly recognized by federal...
Nine states still tax at least some Social Security benefits as of the 2025 tax year, though the rules differ widely by state and income; West Virginia is completing a legislated phase‑out so it will ...
Most states allow some form of entity (trust or LLC) to claim private prizes but the rules vary: a handful of states legally permit true anonymity, others allow claims in a trust whose name becomes pu...
Multiple countries have implemented universal health coverage through a range of models that achieve broad access but differ substantially from one another and from U.S. proposals labeled “Medicare fo...
The available August 2025 reporting documents that Vice President J.D. Vance took multiple trips — described as eight vacations in some pieces — and identifies specific such as a manor renting for abo...
The 2026 Senate map is contested and sources disagree on the exact number of seats and which are most competitive, but consensus places among the top battlegrounds and identifies a narrow path for Dem...
State-issued Enhanced Driver’s Licenses (EDLs) are explicitly designed to prove both identity and U.S. citizenship for border travel and are recognized by federal agencies as acceptable alternatives t...
A plurality of U.S. states have some form of “stop-and-identify” statute that allows police who have reasonable, articulable suspicion of criminal activity to require a stopped person to identify them...
If Congress allows the enhanced ACA premium tax credits to expire at the end of 2025, average after-subsidy premium payments for Marketplace enrollees are projected to rise roughly 114% — from about $...
Federal rules affecting how much of Social Security is taxed at the federal level will change in 2026 (including a new senior deduction and a shift in taxable wage base), and most states already do no...
Six U.S. states currently have only one voting seat in the House of Representatives — Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming — meaning each elects a single “at‑large” repres...
Grocery (food-at-home) prices jumped sharply in 2022, then slowed: food prices rose 11.4% in 2022, 5.8% in 2023 and 2.3% in 2024, and USDA/ERS forecast food-at-home to increase about 3.3% in 2025 (ERS...