New York City is one of many areas across the country offering guaranteed basic income to low-income residents.joSon/Getty Images Guaranteed basic income programs can help low-income participants ...

Beginning in June, more than 23 million homes in the US saw their internet bills increase by $30 to $75 per month when the Affordable Connectivity Program officially expired. The pandemic-era program ...

Last year, the Low Income Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, distributed nearly $4 billion to households struggling to pay their energy bills. It’s a lifeline for more than 6 million families, but ...

Medicaid is a federal program jointly funded with the states, providing health and long-term care insurance to more than 80 million low-income Americans.

A similar discount program that started this year for natural gas bills in Chicago will soon extend to electric bills.

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 ...

Starting in October 2026, LIAP funding will be increased to $33 million each year, a nearly 50% increase from the current $22 ...

Gov. Bill Lee proposed his Education Savings Accounts program in 2019 as an empowerment tool for low-income students to ...

The Maine Public Utilities Commission made significant changes to a program that could add more than 20,000 participants.