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The federal government’s total annual outlays for fiscal year (FY) 2025 are roughly $7.0 trillion, up about $301 billion (4%) from FY 2024 (CBO estimate reported by analysts) and producing a $1.8 tril...
SNAP eligibility in the United States is governed by two parallel paths: a traditional financial test that uses gross income, net income after deductions, and asset limits, and a categorical eligibili...
Two different headline figures — about 6 million and 271,000 — come from distinct data ecosystems and mean very different things: the “6 million” context appears in Bureau of Labor Statistics unemploy...
SNAP’s national payment error rate for FY2024 is reported at 10.93%, substantially above the 6% threshold that recent legislation would use to trigger state cost-sharing and penalties . Reporting and ...
Low-wage industries show high SNAP dependency because many workers there earn low pay, face unstable hours and turnover, and lack benefits that smooth income — conditions the Center on Budget and Poli...
Federal actions during the COVID-19 emergency did not directly rewrite the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC); instead, governors’ emergency orders and preexisting compact rules made interstate practice va...
Available sources do not report a single, definitive percentage of SNAP recipients who were unemployed in 2022 and 2023; instead, government and research reports describe related measures (share of re...