The block grant program changes how Tennessee's Medicaid program, called TennCare, is funded and managed. The proposals, laid out in a letter sent to TennCare's Director Stephen Smith, would likely ...

WITH MORE ON THE MILESTONE. DEB. YEAH, ASHLEY KAI BUY BACK THE BLOCK WAS ONE OF SEVERAL PROGRAMS THAT WERE STARTED WITH FUNDS FROM THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT. THE IDEA WAS SIMPLE ELIMINATE THE ...

Republicans have floated the idea of transforming Medicaid into a block grant program for years, and now with control of the White House and Congress, they are in a position to make the change. The ...

The banner proposal in the Trump administration’s spending request for the U.S. Department of Education, released Monday, is a block grant consisting of 29 current programs called “Elementary and ...

Tennessee released a plan Tuesday to radically overhaul its Medicaid program, seeking to take advantage of the Trump administration’s push to give states more flexibility in covering low-income ...

The announcement on funding this week came two months after a report that nearly $500 million in Hurricane Helene disaster relief was unpaid.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is seen in Washington, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget proposal includes the total elimination ...

President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget proposal includes the total elimination of the Community Services Block Grant, a little-known but vitally important source of funding aimed at reducing poverty for ...

BENTONVILLE -- The city is changing the way it allocates federal Community Development Block Grant money after it determined a homeownership assistance program was unfeasible with rising home prices.

COLUMBIA — Columbia residents will soon be eligible to apply for mini grants to support neighborhood activities and small home repairs. Columbia City Council voted to approve the mini-grant ...

The city of Santa Barbara is soliciting proposals from eligible applicants for its Fiscal Years 2026 and 2027 Human Services Grant Funding and Fiscal Year 2026 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) ...

ATLANTA — A federal judge in Atlanta ruled Tuesday that a venture capital firm can continue offering a grant program only to Black women entrepreneurs, saying a lawsuit arguing it illegally excluded ...