Work requirements for Medicaid recipients, food assistance cuts and other measures in the budget passed by the U.S.

An amendment filed just before the House vote removed language limiting the ban to minors, broadening its reach ...

The notion that people who get government benefits should prove that they deserve them, ideally through paid labor, is now centuries old. This conviction underlay the Victorian workhouses in ...

Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the sponsor of the bill ... but only tips reported to the employer would be eligible for the deduction. The exemption would apply to tips given to workers “in an occupation which ...

Rural areas struggling with low-income and high unemployment are expected to be among the hardest hit if Republicans' ...

House Republicans approved a budget bill that would require many people who receive Medicaid to work or volunteer 80 hours a week to keep their coverage. Here's what that could mean and who could be ...

Medicaid programs allow more children to attend school and climb out of poverty, and they allow some 4.5 million people to ...

While these proposed cuts would primarily impact states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, the ripple effects could still be felt in Texas and the Coastal Bend region.

Feeding Texas, the state association of food banks, and Texans Care for Children will host a briefing on Thursday afternoon ...

Paxton launched his inquiry into “spying or blackmailing” by Superior HealthPlan, one of the state’s largest providers of Medicaid, after allegations by a Texas House committee chairman that ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Texas can’t cut off Medicaid dollars to Planned Parenthood over secretly recorded videos taken by anti-abortion activists in 2015 that ...