California
California launched the CalAIM initiative in early 2022 , which is a five-year, $12 billion social experiment that Governor Gavin Newsom is betting will eventually cut soaring health care spending in Medi-Cal…
California has spent billions of dollars on homelessness in recent years and a bipartisan group of California legislators is calling for a first-of-its kind, large-scale audit of the state’s homelessness spending…
The latest push for education savings accounts – a type of school choice voucher that would give parents money to finance their children’s non-public schooling – was defeated in a 5-2 vote in California’s senate education committee earlier this week…
Congress
According to Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), House Republicans are taking the first step forward in the appropriations process and will likely deem a top-line spending number of $1.47 trillion, which is in line with the cap outlined in the Republican debt-limit bill…
House Republicans plan to pass their proposal to raise the debt ceiling this week…
On Thursday, 4/20, House Republicans passed a bill that would amend a landmark federal civil rights law to bar transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports…
House lawmakers backed by a wide array of industries think they have a solution to Medicare’s approaching insolvency: moving more care from the hospital to the home…
On Thursday, 4/20, Emergent BioSolutions said that it planned to charge “less than $50” for a two-pack of the nonprescription version of its opioid overdose reversal nasal spray…
President and Administration
On Thursday, 4/20, residential solar company Sunnova Energy International said the U.S. government would provide a partial loan guarantee of up to $3 billion to back financing for its rooftop solar systems…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine advisers chided the Federal Drug Administration’s (FDA) new bivalent-only plan for vaccinating children against COVID-19, saying that the schedule for kids five and under is too complicated and leaves some immunocompromised groups without coverage…
Education
Obama-era guidance from 2014 warned districts that racial gaps in suspension rates could indicate discrimination, but the Trump administration rescinded the document in 2018 amid fears of school shootings…
Missouri is one of 19 remaining states that legally allow the physical disciplinary method…
According to a new poll, Black parents say they play a much more active role in their children’s education than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic…