Appropriations
Senate appropriators approved funding totals for a dozen fiscal 2024 spending bills along party lines on Thursday, 6/22, while acknowledging the need for reaching an agreement on more money in the coming months…
House Republicans have begun loading up government spending bills with partisan policy mandates aimed at amplifying political battles on social issues, setting up clashes with the Democratic-controlled Senate to go along with the funding disputes already looming…
With just over three months until the end of the federal fiscal year (September 30), Democrats and Republicans are nowhere near a bipartisan deal to fund the government by the start of the new fiscal year…
President and Administration
This TIP supports learning about the key aspects, functions, and uses of Peer Support Services (PSS) in recovery from problematic substance use, which will help providers, supervisors, and administrators in SUD treatment programs better understand and respond to these changes…
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division jointly issued resources…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), issued a new advisory today…
Today, 6/26, President Biden announced more than $42 billion in new federal funding to expand high-speed internet access nationwide, commencing the largest-ever campaign to help an estimated 8.5 million families and small businesses finally take advantage of modern-day connectivity…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will spend more than $2 billion to help people hurt by the expiration of pandemic-era benefits…
Education
COVID-19’s cataclysmic impact on K–12 education, coming on the heels of a decade of stagnation in schools, has yielded a lost generation of growth for adolescents, new federal data reveal…
Elijah Calderon, after a yearlong training program at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, is poised to earn about $105,000 annually as a power lineman…
As two leading advocates for folks who learn differently, we remember when it was not uncommon for students with disabilities to be openly ostracized in the classroom…