Withdrawing the Fed’s swap lines would be a step toward ending dollar’s role as a reserve currency, Vincient Arnold writes in ...

The opening lines in an April 11 farmdocDAILY post should have raised an eyebrow or two among Farm Bill geeks both in and out ...

Now top GOP leaders want to make it someone else’s problem — by shifting some safety-net programs onto state budgets. The plans under discussion could generate hundreds of billions of dollars ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that improving public health requires government programs that can reduce harm to children and promote childhood development and well-being.

An ambitious House bill to cut taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars and pay for part of it by slashing Medicaid spending ...

Some providers may need to reduce services, lay off staff or close their doors if Congress enacts major cuts to the ...

is preparing to unveil a budget proposal as soon as next week that includes draconian cuts that would entirely eliminate some federal programs and fray the nation’s social safety net.

Against a backdrop of rural and safety net hospital closures all over the nation, Congress is actively considering measures which will likely accelerate these closures, leaving communities without ...