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The enhanced ACA premium tax credits created by pandemic-era laws are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025 unless Congress acts, which would revert subsidies to the original 100–400% of FPL structur...
Congressional action, the White House and Republican centrists are actively discussing extensions or revisions to the enhanced ACA premium tax credits that are scheduled to expire Dec. 31, 2025; propo...
USDA’s most recent public characteristics report (FY2023) and related coverage show that the largest single racial group of SNAP participants is non‑Hispanic White, with Black/African American and His...
The 2026 increase in the federal poverty guidelines — used each October to set SNAP income thresholds — raised the monthly gross income ceilings to 130% of the poverty level and net income limits to 1...
Available sources show that France on the eve of 1789 had extremely concentrated wealth—some accounts put the top 10% owning about 90% of national wealth and the top 1% about 60%—whereas modern measur...
Enhanced premium tax credits (ePTCs) in effect through 2025 cap a household’s required contribution to the benchmark (second‑lowest‑cost Silver) plan at no more than about 8.5% of their ACA‑specific m...
SNAP income limits for FY2025 (effective Oct. 1, 2024–Sept. 30, 2025) are published by USDA and show net monthly income limits tied to 100% of the federal poverty level for the 48 contiguous states an...
Publicly available USDA-based reporting and fact-checking say non-Hispanic White people are the single largest racial group among SNAP recipients in recent data — about 35% of recipients in the most-c...
Independent data and contemporaneous analysis show mixed effects from Trump administration policies enacted in 2025: headline inflation has eased from 2024 peaks but remained above the Fed’s 2 percent...
Federal SNAP (food stamp) spending was about $100.3 billion in FY2024, serving roughly 41–42 million people at an average benefit near $187–$190 per person per month, or about $2,250 per person per ye...
Republican 2025-era proposals from Project 2025, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) and other GOP plans do not offer the same federal guarantees for people with pre‑existing conditions that the Affo...
By early 2026, the most immediate Section 8 funding cliff in public reporting is the Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) program — widely reported as running out of funds in 2026 — and a rolling set of pr...
There is no single public source among the results that lists 2024–2025 SNAP/EBT participation rates broken down both by county and by race in Minnesota. Statewide snapshots show roughly 440,000–454,0...
President Trump’s second-term personnel actions have produced widely different tallies — from official counts of tens of thousands to media estimates exceeding 300,000 — because reporters and analysts...
Federal law bars insurers from denying coverage or charging higher premiums because of preexisting conditions for most major health plans: the Affordable Care Act’s guaranteed-issue and community-rati...
If Congress takes no further action, the enhanced ACA premium tax credits enacted under the American Rescue Plan and extended by the Inflation Reduction Act will expire Dec. 31, 2025, and 2026 subsidy...
The most recent official U.S. poverty statistics in the provided sources cover 2023 and 2024: the Census reports the official poverty rate fell to 10.6% in 2024 (down from 11.1% in 2023) with about 35...
Estimates in recent reporting and research place undocumented immigrants’ annual contributions to Social Security in the tens of billions of dollars — commonly cited figures are about $25 billion in 2...
Available reporting and advocacy materials catalog dozens of actions by President Trump that critics call unlawful or unconstitutional—ranging from mass firings of inspectors general and alleged impro...
SNAP income limits for Federal Fiscal Year 2026 (effective Oct. 1, 2025–Sept. 30, 2026) are adjusted to reflect the updated Federal Poverty Level (FPL): gross monthly income limits are generally set a...