While all low-income individuals and families, particularly those of color, struggle to avoid falling into poverty, some receive less support solely because of where they live. The economic crisis ...

Leslie Ford was a Visiting Fellow in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation. America’s safety-net policies should promote work to support beneficiaries’ human dignity. But ...

The health care safety net—the patchwork of hospitals, clinics, and health systems that provide care to significant numbers of uninsured, underinsured, and publicly insured patients—provides a ...

Safety-net hospitals face a number of longstanding challenges thrown into the spotlight by COVID-19, from competition with wealthier hospitals to uneven government support. But another challenge is ...