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Housing funding cut in Illinois budget as homelessness increases
Illinois' $55.1 billion budget that took effect July 1 reduces total funding for housing programs by more than $14 million, ...
Rural hospitals brace for impact under Republicans’ $1 trillion Medicaid cut
States and rural health advocacy groups are sounding the alarm that Congress’ slashing of Medicaid will devastate already ...
Uncertainty of future FEMA disaster funding alarms Bay Area emergency planners
On a FEMA color-coded hazard map, Alameda, Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties are shaded dark red, indicating an area with ...
3 years later, 988 Lifeline sees higher volume but special option for LGBTQ youth cut
Three years after the launch of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, the service is seeing increased call, chat and text volume ...
States Fear Critical Funding From FEMA May Be Drying Up
On top of that, on June 11, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem began requiring that she review all ...
Unified Government may pitch tourism tax increase to raise money for World Cup
Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, staff will likely pitch up to 2% in increases to local ...
ICE prepares detention blitz with historic $45 billion in funding
Much of the new allocation from Congress will go to private prison contractors tasked with doubling the nation’s capacity to ...
'Already operating in the red': Hospitals and Nebraskans bracing for cuts to Medicaid
The House of Representatives passed President Trump's tax and spending bill. The bill will cut nearly $1 trillion in funding to Medicaid. The Nebraska Hospital Association says those cuts will result ...
‘We’ve been ghosted by FEMA’: Officials across country say they can’t get answers on critical funding
As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of ...
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FEMA’s beginnings trace to great 1927 Mississippi River flood, but now may be on chopping block
President Trump is not the first to downplay providing federal emergency relief. During the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, ...
Florida communities say they’re now bracing for disaster after FEMA axes $150M in grants for flood protection
FEMA yanked $150M in BRIC flood grants, impacting areas across Miami-Dade and Broward. Locals fear rising waters, spiking ...
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FEMA funding once canceled, again headed to Westport for tsunami evac tower
WESTPORT, Wash. — The City of Westport will get its tsunami evacuation tower funding after all. In 2023 the city was awarded approximately $15 million in grant funding from the Federal Emergency ...