Hi, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories. With Senate results too close to call, food-aid programs for low-income Americans hang in the balance The farm bill determines everything from agricultural Read more
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Food-aid programs for low-income Americans hang in the balance — with Senate results still too close to call
The midterm election results will have far-reaching effects, including on low-income Americans. The reauthorization of the Farm Bill in 2023 may depend on the results of Tuesday’s elections, said Elaine Read more
Opinion: Building subsidized low-income housing actually lifts property values in a neighborhood, contradicting NIMBY concerns
Building multiple publicly subsidized low-income housing developments in a neighborhood doesn’t lower the value of other homes in the area—and in fact can even increase their worth, according to a new Read more
Enhanced child-tax credit cash helped reduce food insecurity for low-income families. Here’s one way Republicans and Democrats could agree on reinstating it.
The direct cash assistance from child-tax credit payments helped millions of families, making a sizable dent in child poverty rates. But the pandemic-era enhanced credit was discontinued at the end Read more
Americans give U.S. health-care system a dismal score and MacKenzie Scott donates $20 million to California school district where 83% of students are considered low-income
Hi, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories. Americans give U.S. health-care system a dismal score. Here are their biggest concerns. More than one quarter of people said they or a Read more
MacKenzie Scott donates $20 million to low-income California school district
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $20 million to public schools in a part of California where about one in five people lives in poverty. “There’s 20 million reasons to Read more
Campus COVID-19 vaccine mandates had the biggest impact on colleges with low-income students. Here’s why they were so effective.
COVID-19 vaccine mandates at colleges were effective in saving lives, especially in colleges that largely comprised low-income and minority communities, researchers say. Vaccine mandates on college campuses reduced total U.S. Read more
‘Savings are gonna run out’: Already battered by high inflation, Fed’s rate hike will hit lower-income and rural Americans hard
The Federal Reserve hiked its benchmark rate by 0.75 percentage points on Wednesday in an effort to temper the rising costs of consumer goods and services. While economists say raising Read more
‘It will be mostly a white-collar recession’: Milken economist William Lee on how the next economic downturn will be different
“It will be mostly a white-collar recession. And the blue-collar recession will not be in the same places that we saw in the past.” That was William Lee, chief economist Read more