IDAHO FALLS — A local youth group is in the midst of its annual fundraiser of selling fireworks, with the goal of funding parts of its programs. Community Youth in Action, founded in 2018, has evolved from its initial goal of keeping local youth drug-free to include the LIV Teen Center and a Safety, Prevention,
Reading Time: 3 minutes Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed a new two-year budget in the early morning hours Thursday in a race against Congress to ensure the state gets a federal Medicaid match that it would lose under President Trump’s tax and spending cuts package. In an extraordinarily rapid succession of events, Evers and Republican lawmakers unveiled a compromise
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Nuria Martinez-Keel | Oklahoma Voice Here’s what the Senate removed from Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Here’s whats left of Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” after Senate cuts due to the “Byrd rule.” OKLAHOMA CITY — The Trump administration is indefinitely withholding more than $70 million in federal education programs meant for Oklahoma students and educators,
The Trump administration may have relented this week in its effort to freeze $875 million of federal funds to build electric vehicle charging stations. The U.S. attorney general’s office on Tuesday declined to appeal a court order from last week that freed a variety of states, from California to Rhode Island, to draw money halted
The US Supreme Court’s choice to take up a dispute next term over activist investors’ ability to challenge corporate resolutions signals the justices are eager to clarify a major tenet of investment fund operations. The high court this week agreed to scrutinize a ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit holding
Mikie Sherrill has raised almost $1.5 million since winning the Democratic gubernatorial primary on June 10 and has submitted over $1.3 million toward matching funds. Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli, who announced on July 16 that he’d hit the $580,000 threshold to qualify for matching funds, has raised over $1.8 million for the general election and
Michigan stands at a critical juncture in its battle against the opioid epidemic. Last month, I testified before the House Appropriations Medicaid and Behavioral Health Subcommittee on the challenges we face, and how opioid settlement funds can help us work together for widespread change. A recent analysis by Avalere Health reveals that each case of opioid
Students in class at George Washington Elementary School in Madera on Oct. 29, 2024. California and Massachusetts banned bilingual education for almost 20 years and then reversed their bans at about the same time seven years ago. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters.
The Donor Advised Fund market is big with an estimated $250 billion held in these consumer-level, tax-advantaged charitable savings accounts, but the industry still needs technological and marketing innovation to realize its potential. Big news in DAF-land was this week’s launch of GoFundMe Giving Funds, a virtual space that enables consumers to easily create their