“It’s Been Really Stressful”
With SNAP funding in jeopardy, Greater Chicago Food Depository sounds alarm on food access Chicago resident Stacy Robison-Holzendorf faces a nearly impossible choice this month: pay her bills or feed her children and grandchildren. “It’s been really stressful,” Robison-Holzendorf says. “Telling my grandkids: ‘Don’t run through the food.’ They’re not used to that. And now […]
Q&A: Federal Cuts to Medicaid, ACA
University of Chicago professor shares realities of the “Big Beautiful Bill” healthcare impacts Medicaid covers about 83 million people, Medicare about 66 million, and nearly 24 million people are enrolled in Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace plans. Combined, these programs support nearly half of all Americans. But the recently passed “Big Beautiful Bill” puts them […]