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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...
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reports that 59% of households headed by an illegal immigrant used at least one welfare program in its recent analysis of the 2022 Survey of Income and Program...
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...
Estimates for implementing universal health care in the United States vary widely depending on the model: extending coverage under the existing multi‑payer system was estimated to raise the national h...
The enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits — the larger, pandemic-era subsidies enacted in ARPA and extended by later laws — are scheduled to lapse on December 31, 2025, reverting subs...
The short answer is that estimates vary widely depending on assumptions about scope, payment methods, and cost-control measures, but most reputable analyses place a full U.S. single‑payer “Medicare fo...
Red (“Republican-leaning”) states generally register higher official poverty rates than blue (“Democratic-leaning”) states in multiple recent analyses, but the relationship between party control, pove...
The available analyses point repeatedly to large, populous states—Florida, Texas, and California—as the states with the highest number of residents receiving Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace prem...
The answer depends on what is being measured: roughly one in eight Black Americans were receiving at least one means-tested benefit in the average month in the early 2010s, while Black people make up ...
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 $...
The only specific ACA credits identified in the sources as scheduled to change are the "enhanced" premium tax credits (ePTCs) — the post‑2020 expansions enacted by the American Rescue Plan and extende...
The claim that Black Americans constitute the majority of government assistance recipients is ; multiple analyses show that non-Hispanic White people are the largest single racial group among many maj...
New York (including New York City) and the District of Columbia appear at or near the top of state/local public‑welfare spending per capita in recent reporting: the Urban Institute reports a 2021 per‑...
Starting in 2026 federal law phases in multiple Medicaid eligibility and administrative changes that most directly affect adults in the ACA expansion population (new work/community-engagement rules, m...
Available reporting and policy summaries show no clear, consistent decade-long, national comparison of SNAP, TANF and Medicaid enrollment specifically for Somali immigrants versus other immigrant grou...
If Congress allows the ARPA/IRA enhancements to lapse after 2025, the core premium tax credit (PTC) will remain but the expanded eligibility and larger subsidies will end — meaning subsidies would rev...
Millions of Americans would face much higher marketplace premiums and coverage losses if the enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits (ePTCs) expire at the end of 2025: analyses estimate rough...
The available reporting does not identify an executive order issued by President Trump on December 16, 2025 specifically; however, a string of 2025 executive orders and policy moves cited by disabilit...
2026 brings routine but consequential SSDI changes: a 2.8% COLA that raises average SSDI from about $1,586 to $1,630 and increases SSI maximums (SSA announced nearly 71 million beneficiaries get COLA)...
The Social Security Administration (SSA) rolled out a set of routine 2025 updates that affect SSDI recipients: a 2.5% cost‑of‑living adjustment (COLA) effective January 2025 for most beneficiaries, a ...