In two days, California will wrap up the distribution of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments to low-income households for the month of March. Payments are sent out on the first of the month and will continue until the 10th of the month. The dates when benefits are sent out to qualified low-income residents and families […]
The Alaska Department of Revenue is slated to send payments from the Permanent Fund Dividend to another batch of residents who have yet to receive their checks from the program in 13 days. The Alaskans who will get their PFD check on March 21 include those with the “Eligible-Not Paid” status as of Wednesday who also have yet to get […]
Monthly payments of $528 will be allocated in seven days to 100 low-income entrepreneurs in Ann Arbor, Michigan, who are participants in the Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor program. Conducted by the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions team, this two-year pilot initiative began distributing payments in January to individuals who had been selected beforehand. Kristin Seefeldt, the associate director […]
A Saudi Arabian farm has stopped pumping Arizona groundwater after previously having unlimited access to the state’s dwindling groundwater supply. An inspection from Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) and the Arizona State Land Department found that the company, Fondomonte Arizona, had stopped pumping water in Butler Valley, near the Colorado River. Hobbs took responsibility for the […]
President Joe Biden welcomed a better-than-expected February jobs report one day after his last State of the Union address before November’s general election. Biden used his State of the Union address to describe the economy, under his leadership, as “the greatest comeback story never told.” That was a tacit acknowledgment that although economic indicators have been improving, consumer sentiment, at […]
President Joe Biden is catching some heat from members of his own party for his use of the term “illegal” while describing the killing of former nursing student Laken Riley during Thursday’s State of the Union address. The moment occurred during a terse exchange with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) as Biden shifted his speech […]
Former President Donald Trump’s plan to overhaul the Republican National Committee will culminate Friday. The RNC is meeting in Houston, where officials are expected to select North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Michael Whatley as chairman and Lara Trump as co-chairwoman. The former president also pushed for veteran operatives Chris LaCivita and James Blair to take on […]
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough gushed over President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Friday and claimed the president made his Republican adversaries look like “fools.” “It was his best speech of his presidency by far,” the host of Morning Joe said. “Strongest speech, and, most importantly, for people that were thinking, ‘Oh, he’s too […]
The Washington Examiner’s Byron York analyzed President Joe Biden’s messaging and delivery of his State of the Union address. York appeared on America’s Newsroom on Friday to share his takeaways from the president’s most recent speech. According to York, it was clear that Biden’s mission was to “repeatedly attack this guy called the predecessor,” in […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told President Joe Biden in a meeting last year that he would need to lean into frustrations with the economy rather than tout his own accomplishments on it, according to a report. Sanders said that Biden needed to target his political opposition in the pitch he made last year. The Vermont […]
