April 11-17, 2025 is Black Maternal Health Week. Current proposed cuts to Medicaid and DEI programs threaten to diminish the physical and mental health of Black women.
With this measure, Congressional leaders are attempting to fund tax breaks for the rich and corporations and drive up the deficit through massive Medicaid cuts of $880 billion and SNAP cuts of $230 billion. The proposal would also slash other public benefit programs that people…
CLASP decries the cuts announced yesterday to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. These reductions will affect mental health, disabled people, rural communities, vaccines for children, and community health workers who address inequities for people across the lifespan, among others.
On March 25-26, Isha Weerasinghe spoke on a panel for the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS) Health Summit on the importance of data disaggregation in health for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.
The proposed rule makes clear that this administration will continue to waste time on policies that hurt our families, communities, and collective well-being rather than working to actually make the United States healthier.
By Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY (EXCERPT) Meanwhile, Congressional budget resolutions call for massive cuts in federal funding, potentially forcing states to make “incredibly hard decisions” about Medicaid and other programs, according to a report from the left-leaning Center for Law and Social Policy. Read the full…
While we are already seeing some of the damage from these job cuts, it’s clear that the long-term consequences will be even more significant and could affect generations to come.
By Suzanne Wikle Congress is setting state policymakers up to face incredibly hard decisions about everything from health care cuts, deciding who should go hungry, and supporting their rural communities. Both the Senate and House of Representatives have put enormous budget cuts on the table.…