15 safety net programs most working families never realize they qualify for

Your rent goes up, groceries cost more, and your paycheck doesn’t get the memo. You’re working, you’re trying, and you still ...

Best Credit Cards For Low-Income Earners Of 2026

Some of the most-touted credit cards require high income for approval and high spending to make their benefits worthwhile. If ...

NCOA Selects 90 Community-Based Organizations to Connect Low-Income Older Adults to Benefits Programs

NCOA will provide over $18.5 million in funding to 90 community-based organizations across 40 states and territories. The funding will support the work of local benefits counselors who find and enroll ...
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The FCC Just Made It Harder to Get Low-Income Internet. Why Critics Are Calling It a 'War on the Poor'

The FCC Just Made It Harder to Get Low-Income Internet. Why Critics Are Calling It a 'War on the Poor' ...
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These federal programs help low-income students get to and through college. Trump wants to pull the funding

MOREHEAD, Ky. — The summer after ninth grade, Zoey Griffith found herself in an unfamiliar setting: a dorm on the Morehead State University campus. There, she’d spend the months before her sophomore ...

Supporters of Cook County’s guaranteed income program hold meeting to help shape distribution

In its 2026 budget, Cook County set aside $7.5 million to carry the guaranteed income program beyond the pilot, becoming one ...

Despite federal pressures, colleges work to attract low income, first gen students

Walking down a blue-speckled carpet in a Framingham hotel on Friday morning, Maximo “Danny” Williams passed booth after booth ...
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Low-Income Households Shortchanged on State Funds for Energy Savings Programs

The state’s Public Service Commission commits only 30 percent of the funding that goes into energy saving programs to low- and moderate- income New Yorkers. The rest will be earmarked for residential ...