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Home heating oil, used in furnaces across the Northeast, is expensive, leading some people to keep homes at unhealthy temperatures. AP Photo/Charles Krupa

Trump was already cutting low‑income energy assistance – the shutdown is making things worse as cold weather arrives

Nearly a quarter of US households struggle to pay their energy bills at the same time as America’s social safety nets, including home heat aid, are disappearing.
In Pennsylvania, local governments will decide which substance use programs to fund in their communities. Jeff Fusco/The Conversation U.S.

Pennsylvania counties face tough choices on spending $2B opioid settlement funds

Local governments have a lot of freedom on how to spend the funds, but there’s also confusion and a feeling of moral responsibility to spend wisely after so many lives have been lost.
The Trump administration’s actions against Harvard threaten a foundational American value – free speech. zpagistock/Getty Images

Harvard, like all Americans, can’t be punished by the government for speaking freely – and a federal court decision upholds decades of precedents saying so

The First Amendment is not just about the right to speak without fear of jail. It’s also about ensuring that government cannot punish speech indirectly by threatening livelihoods and institutions.
The program helps Americans over 55 find job training and short-term employment. Marc Romanelli/Tetra images via Getty Images

A federal program helps older people get jobs, but the Trump administration wants to get rid of it

The Senior Community Service Employment Program helps older Americans balance their checkbooks, enjoy better health and engage more with their own communities.
Located in the Peñarol neighborhood of Montevideo, COVIMT 1 was the city’s first mutual aid housing cooperative. It was founded by textile workers, who completed construction of the complex in 1972. Bé Estudio

What the world can learn from Uruguay as the global housing crisis deepens

One of Latin America’s smallest nations has a robust network of housing cooperatives, which give access to permanent, affordable housing to citizens at a range of income levels.
Hate and mental illness fester online because love and healing seem to be incompatible with profits. Ihor Lukianenko/iStock via Getty Images

Is there any hope for the internet?

The author of the new book ‘Attention and Alienation’ wonders if the online world can ever become a place where kindness and human flourishing are the prevailing ethos.
Activists in Seattle gather signatures to put a social housing initiative on the ballot. In early 2025, voters passed the measure, which implements a payroll tax on high incomes to fund the program. House Our Neighbors

From Seattle to Atlanta, new social housing programs seek to make homes permanently affordable for a range of incomes

Americans are realizing that the country’s two-tiered system of market-rate housing and government-operated, low-income housing isn’t doing the trick.
Abortion-rights demonstrators holds a sign in front of the Supreme Court building in Washington as the Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic case is heard on April 2, 2025. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images

Supreme Court rules that states may deny people covered by Medicaid the freedom to choose Planned Parenthood as their health care provider

The ruling limits the rights of Medicaid patients to choose their own health care provider. It could have consequences far beyond South Carolina.
Many AmeriCorps crews, like this one seen at work in Maine in 2011, restore and renovate public parks. John Patriquin/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

AmeriCorps is on the chopping block – despite research showing that the national service agency is making a difference in local communities

The independent federal agency had been facilitating the work of approximately 200,000 volunteers a year, deploying them across the country through partnerships with thousands of nonprofits.
Cities like Houston get high humidity in addition to the heat, making summer almost unbearable without cooling. Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Trump moves to gut low‑income energy assistance as summer heat descends and electricity prices rise

The problem of high energy prices and rising numbers of people unable to afford them isn’t lost on the Trump administration.
Planned Parenthood clinics, like this one in Los Angeles, are located across the United States. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Supreme Court considers whether states may prevent people covered by Medicaid from choosing Planned Parenthood as their health care provider

The court’s decision on whether Medicaid patients can choose their own health care provider could have consequences far beyond South Carolina.

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