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United States federal agency division that provides assistance programs
Federal law has long barred undocumented (unauthorized) immigrants from most federal cash and non-cash public benefits, including SNAP (food stamps) and regular Medicaid, though limited exceptions (em...
Available reporting shows competing figures and claims about how many unaccompanied children have been "rescued" or "located" since 2025 began; some pro‑administration releases and sympathetic outlets...
Research using the Survey of Income and Program Participation finds roughly 59–59.4% of households headed by someone the analysts label “illegal immigrants” used one or more welfare programs in recent...
Available national data show counts and rates of reported or substantiated child abuse by race/ethnicity but do not provide a single, widely‑used “per capita conviction rate for child sexual abuse by ...
As of the most recent operational snapshot available to reviewers, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) averaged about , with a system capacity of roughly and an average occupancy near ; this numb...
Red and blue states differ in SNAP and TANF participation mainly because of population size, poverty rates, and state policy choices: large-population states (California, New York, Texas, Florida) acc...
A narrow set of federal programs and program-specific guidance reference 150 percent of the HHS poverty guidelines for 2025; the clearest, explicit uses in the available federal reporting are the Low ...
A direct, year-by-year breakdown of the share of Minnesota Medicaid, SNAP, and TANF recipients who are foreign‑born versus native‑born is not available in the provided reporting; state and federal sum...
Across available federal reporting, the racial composition of SNAP participants has remained broadly stable from the mid-2010s through the early 2020s: White people constitute the largest single racia...
HHS/ORR publishes program data but none of the provided sources give a complete month‑by‑month count for every month of 2025; available HHS and ACF pages describe custody responsibilities and program ...
Federal guidance and reporting show that in 2022 there was no broad, new federal TANF waiver program that universally suspended work-participation requirements; instead, states used existing flexibili...
Federal guidance and temporary funds tied to COVID-era relief shaped how states applied TANF work rules in 2022: HHS required states to report work participation for October 2021–September 2022 and is...
Federal and state TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) expenditures and transfers totaled $31.3 billion in FY2022; the federal Office of Family Assistance (OFA) publishes state-level tables ...
Community tips and organized tip lines have repeatedly been central to solving crimes: Metro Denver Crime Stoppers is described as a “core investigative strategy” that helps detectives ID suspects fro...
SNAP’s official annual payment error rates are published by USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service and cover many years through FY2024; recent press releases note FY2024 data (page updated June 27, 2025) ....
Recent federal bills and proposals aim to loosen restrictions that trace back to the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), chiefly by expanding who can get chi...