The Commonwealth Fund’s updated July 2025 brief on maternal mortality highlights how systemic disparities, Medicaid coverage ...

Two Mississippi men were arrested in Slidell after police found $1,500 worth of stolen meat inside their vehicle. The Slidell Police Department said that the Canine and Narcotics Division officers ...

President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill, signed into law earlier this month, slashes social safety net programs that ...

The committee tasked with advising the Mississippi Division of Medicaid met Friday for the first time in a year and a half. ...

Don’t look now, but thanks to the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, health care, which by nearly every metric already is bad ...

Joe Kennedy III, the grandson of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, says there is work to do in red states. He also has a few things ...

Trump’s legislation will create more work requirements for parents to qualify for the SNAP program, which may decrease the number of students getting free school meals. That could have a domino effect ...

Adrienne White-Faines will be the new president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois starting in early September. Most ...

Lawmakers passed House Bill 539 in 2024, allowing for what’s called “presumptive care.” “If they are eligible from a ...

House Bill 539 allows pregnant women in Mississippi to receive presumptive care until their application for Medicaid is reviewed.