Weekly Update 1/22/24

California

During California’s most recent drought, officials worked to safeguard water supplies, issuing emergency regulations to curb use by thousands of farms, utilities and irrigation districts…

California’s top Senate candidates are hours away from taking the stage in Los Angeles, where they’ll make their pitch to voters and fight for viral breakout moments in one of the country’s top-watched races…

President and Administration

Research finds that children of color in the U.S. are less likely than their white peers to get painkillers for a broken arm or leg, for appendicitis or for migraines, according to new findings published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health…

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health's latest program aims to widen access to hospital-level care in rural America…

The Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, in partnership with FHWA, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is offering free technical assistance on the planning…

On Thursday, 1/18, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is announcing a new model to test approaches for addressing the behavioral and physical health, as well as health-related social needs, of people with Medicaid and Medicare…

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently unveiled proposed regulations aimed at curbing overdraft fees that banks charge on overdrawn deposits…

On Friday, 1/19, the Biden Administration announced another round of student debt relief, forgiving nearly $5 billion in student debt for 73,600 borrowers, the president said in a statement…

On Friday, 1/19, the bipartisan Child Tax Credit expansion in the tax bill negotiated by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden and House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith passed out of the House Ways and Means Committee in a strong bipartisan vote, while also winning an endorsement from the White House…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended his Republican presidential campaign on Sunday, 1/21…

Congress

The House Homeland Security Committee plans to vote on January 31 on an impeachment resolution of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas…

A pair of House Republicans are denouncing a Biden administration measure that would require Head Start programs to boost worker wages by 2031…

Education

Small, regular interactions with a reading tutor — about five to seven minutes — are making a big impact on young students’ reading skills…

Brown vs. Board of Education, the pivotal Supreme Court decision that made school segregation unconstitutional, turns 70 years old on May 17, 2024…

Photos show blood splattered across a small bare-walled room in a North Carolina school where a second grader repeatedly punched himself in the face in the fall of 2019, according to the child's mom…

Three weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case on corporal punishment in schools that questioned whether parents could sue schools under the U.S. Constitution…