Thousands of Marylanders would have a harder time affording sufficient, healthy food under provisions in the proposed federal Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 (also known as the “farm bill”).
The recently announced state revenue estimates offer an opportunity to make some long-overdue investments in Maryland’s future. The Board of Revenue Estimates’ updated revenue estimates for the next budget year, which begins July 1, brought some welcome news after years
When the federal government created the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program as part of “welfare reform” in the mid 1990s, it gave states some choices about how to best to support families that are struggling to make ends
Hundreds of thousands of Marylanders will soon be able to earn sick days, thanks to state lawmakers that overturned the governor’s veto. This is a major victory for working Marylanders and for the state, as a growing body of research
In order to have a government that is open, accountable, and responsive to Marylanders’ needs, the state needs adequately staffed government agencies. Right now, many state agencies aren’t functioning at their best because they don’t have enough people to do
Maryland’s success as a state is built on the past policy choices we have made that allow us to invest in the things that make Maryland a good place to live and do business.
When Congress allowed federal funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to expire on Sept. 30, policymakers put at risk health coverage for nearly 9 million children of working families nationwide. For Maryland, this could mean nearly 138,000 children
The percentage of Marylanders with health coverage has continued to grow since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Just as newly released census data showed the continued gains, Senate Republicans were reinvigorating their effort to repeal the ACA, putting
