The continuing growth in states’ Medicaid programs has placed a severe financial strain on state budgets. In fiscal year 2024, Medicaid was the largest category of total state spending, consuming 29.8 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — The federal government wants more clarification from West Virginia on a waiver to remove soda and add some hot food items to the list of eligible food and drinks under the ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KFVS) - The state of Missouri submitted a waiver request to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Services to change the state’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

Nebraska is the first state to receive a federal waiver to ban the purchase of soda and energy drinks under the benefit program for low-income Americans long known as food stamps. The move, announced ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved the Healthy Kids Iowa demonstration project in lieu of the federal government’s summer nutrition program for children, Gov. Kim Reynolds announced ...

At a Capitol news conference in March 2023, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said, “If you abuse or neglect those in your care, we are coming for you” — and she meant it. What followed was a comprehensive ...