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Justice Department memo tests Florida case over children in nursing homes
A June 18 Justice Department opinion challenges the ADA's integration mandate; its first test is the federal case over medically fragile children placed in Florida nursing homes.
PolicyDisabilityChild Care
Oklahoma autism provider says seven centers close this month without Medicaid
Mirabelle Care is preparing to file for injunctive relief after the state froze its SoonerCare payments over a fraud investigation into the company's former owner.
PolicyBusinessDisabilityChild Care
The Home-Care Workforce Walks Out as Its Wage Floor Is Cut
450 Mass General Brigham clinicians begin the state's largest healthcare strike as a federal rule moves to cut wage protections for 3 million home-care workers.
WorkforcePolicyElder CareChild CareDisability
The Rule Decides Who Counts as Too Sick to Work
Ms. Magazine argues the administration is narrowing Medicaid's 'medically frail' exemption beyond what Congress wrote, hitting sick and disabled enrollees first.
PolicyElder CareDisabilityChild Care
Ohio Writes a Home-Care Fraud Crackdown Into Law
A bipartisan Medicaid home-health fraud bill, prompted by a Daily Wire investigation, clears both chambers and heads to Governor DeWine.
PolicyWorkforceDisabilityElder CareChild Care
Naming the Emotional Weight of the Sandwich Generation
A psychologist reframes the midlife care squeeze as emotional labor and parentification, and names self-care and policy change as the way through.
PolicyBusinessCultureElder CareChild Care
Social Security's Own Trustees Now Score a 22% Cut for 2032
The 2026 trustees report projects a benefit cut for 70 million recipients, and the shortfall grew because the trustees cut their immigration forecast.
ResearchPolicyElder CareChild CareDisability
The Fed Counted the Caregivers. The Math Doesn't Work.
A Kansas City Fed analysis confirms the care workforce can't keep up with aging-driven demand. Child care staffing is no better.
WorkforceResearchElder CareChild Care
Federal Child Care Funding Helps a Million Kids. Millions More Wait.
New CCDBG state fact sheets show how far federal child care dollars stretch — and where they fall short.
PolicyResearchChild Care
Child Care Costs Are a Mental Health Crisis Now, Not Just an Economic One
New research links child care access directly to parent mental health — reframing the debate beyond affordability.
PolicyResearchChild CareMental Health
Congress Just Introduced More Care Bills in Two Weeks Than Most Sessions See in a Year
A legislative flood is remaking the care economy debate — but volume alone doesn't mean victory.
PolicyElder CareChild CareGeneral