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The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) would support innovation by clarifying what kind of ideas can be patented, Senators agreed.| Bio.News
The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) would support innovation by clarifying what kind of ideas can be patented, Senators agreed.| Bio.News
On Monday, Oct. 20, the U.S. Senate failed for an 11th time to advance a House-passed measure and end the shutdown The post ‘Going to Get Tougher’: Tribes Grapple With Ongoing Government Shutdown appeared first on Underscore Native News.| Underscore Native News
As there is no clear resolution to the federal government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) must use all the available Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) contingency funds to provide some SNAP benefits to recipients in November. This is the minimum step the agency must take. USDA can also use its discretionary authority, like […] The post GBPI Responds to SNAP Funding Amidst Government Shutdown appeared first on Georgia Budget and Policy Institute.| Georgia Budget and Policy Institute
APLU Shutdown Statement and Resources After congressional leaders were unable to reach a government spending deal, funding lapsed on October 1, leading to a partial government shutdown. APLU released a statement on the shutdown’s harmful impacts on public and land-grant universities and called for the White House and Congress to find the path forward to reopen. […]| APLU
Amidst a government shutdown, Native-certified CDFIs are looking to secure their previously allocated funds or risk shutting their doors.| Underscore Native News
The U.S. Department of Education’s mission, as established by Congress, is to “strengthen the Federal commitment to assuring access to equal educational opportunity for every individual.” Congress, of course, has the authority to alter that mission or even close the department. It hasn’t done either. But the Trump administration’s latest round of staffing cuts during […]| Untitled - FutureEd
In his first two months in office, President Donald Trump ordered the closing of the Education Department and fired half of its staff. The department’s research and statistics division, called the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), was particularly hard hit. About 90 percent of its staff lost their jobs and more than 100 federal contracts to conduct its primary […]| Untitled - FutureEd
The U.S. Department of Education is losing about a fifth of its already diminished workforce.| Education Week
What happens if President Trump cuts billions of dollars from research on how to make our health care system work better? The post The Future of Health Care Research: ‘Federal Funding Really Is Irreplaceable’ appeared first on Tradeoffs.| Tradeoffs
It's been 90 days since Congress passed Trump’s megabill slashing health care spending and reshaping the Medicaid program. States are already knee-deep in dealing with the fallout. The post How States Are Reckoning with Republican Health Reforms appeared first on Tradeoffs.| Tradeoffs
Schools nationwide won't see funding earmarked for English learners, migrant students, professional development, and more.| Education Week
Federal lawmakers could avoid a price-hike while averting a government shutdown *UPDATE: October 1, 2025 — Where indicated, this release had been updated to reflect new KFF analysis based on more recent data, showing that without Congressional action, annual Healthcare Marketplace premiums will more than double next year, from an average of $888 in 2025 […] The post Marketplace health insurance premiums will skyrocket unless Congress acts appeared first on Policy Matters Ohio.| Policy Matters Ohio
The Trump Administration continues to navigate the CHIPS Act in ways that would have even the riskiest gambler saying, “too rich for my blood.” Most recently, the president rolled the dice on Intel by converting a CHIPS grant into a 10% equity stake in the corporation. In exchange, Intel received $5.7 billion in CHIPS Act grants that […]| Policy Matters Ohio
References Include: Analysis of coverage losses from Missouri Foundation for Health, 2025 Joseph Llobrera, Dottie Rosenbaum, and Catlin Nchako, “Senate Agriculture Committee’s Revised Work Requirement Would Risk Taking Away Food Assistance From More Than 5 Million People: State Estimates,” CBPP, June 27, 2025, https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/senate-agriculture-committees-revised-work-requirement-would-risk-taking. Euhus, Rhiannon, et al. “Congressional District Interac...| Missouri Budget Project
More than 200 ongoing projects have seen their remaining grant funding canceled in recent weeks.| Education Week
The administration wants to cut roughly $7 billion in annual K-12 funding. Much of it supports vulnerable students.| Education Week
The Trump administration has cut funding for some English learner PD grants, sparking confusion and prompting appeals.| Education Week
Georgia — “Coming together to enact a federal budget that responsibly funds our government remains among the most basic responsibilities of Congress and requires bipartisan compromise,” said Staci Fox, President and CEO of the Georgia Budget & Policy Institute. “Shutting down the federal government will cause serious harm to people across our state. As other […] The post GBPI Responds to Congressional Vote on the American Relief Act, 2025 appeared first on Georgia Budget and Policy ...| Georgia Budget and Policy Institute
Fiscal Year 2026 Appropriations Update Last Friday, the House passed a continuing resolution (CR) package to fund the government through November 21, largely along party lines with two Republicans voting no and one Democrat voting yes. The package failed later that afternoon in the Senate, with one Republican voting no and one Democrat voting yes. Following […]| APLU
Excerpts of a live conversation with two top health economists about how extra federal support has helped millions of Americans access health insurance, and what would happen if that aid went away. The post BONUS: What Happens if Obamacare Subsidies Shrink? appeared first on Tradeoffs.| Tradeoffs
European countries don’t just pull prices for medicines out of thin air. The prices that those governments set are based on specific sets of […] The post Putting Americans First: Importing European prices means importing European systems and values appeared first on Bio.News.| Bio.News
The ugly truth about the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”: It's the largest upward transfer of wealth in American history.| Policy Matters Ohio
Part five of a five-part series on the new federal scholarship tax credit| Education Next
School choice advocates—and detractors—see a second Trump term as the biggest opportunity in decades for choice at the federal level.| Education Week
As legal protections remain for immigrant students, experts share what educators can do in the wake of federal immigration policy changes.| Education Week
Appropriations Update After returning from the August recess, Congress has turned its attention back to appropriations with a looming September 30 deadline to keep the government funded. One possibility is a continuing resolution package that would include funding for the Agriculture, Military Construction-Veterans Affairs, and Legislative Branch bills for Fiscal Year 2026 and a short-term extension […] The post Washington Update appeared first on APLU.| APLU
It is often taken as a given that drug prices in the U.S. are higher than those in other nations. And while there is […] The post Putting Americans First: International prices in context appeared first on Bio.News.| Bio.News
In the three years since the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law, there arenegative impacts on patient access, advocates say.| Bio.News
Temporary Foreign Workers in Agriculture: A Call for Reform The Issue Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program has grown well […] The post Wheat Growers Briefing Note appeared first on Wheat Growers Association.| Wheat Growers Association
Some 4th and 12th grade tests won't proceed as planned, following sweeping cuts to the U.S. Department of Education research arm last month.| Education Week
The state law passed after the Parkland massacre calls for a new “integrated data repository” that’s raising questions about privacy and civil liberties.| Education Week
The administration issued notices saying undocumented immigrants don't qualify for Head Start and some Education Department programs.| Education Week
By notice issued on 7/2/25, the Department of Labor (DOL, henceforth “the Department”) has published proposals for the rescission of rules published by the Department on April 29, 2024, governing aspects of the H-2A guest workers program. The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute (GBPI) submits the following comment in response to DOL request for comment […] The post GBPI Comment to Improve Protections for Workers in Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United States appeared first on...| Georgia Budget and Policy Institute
After intense scrutiny of higher education, federal government sets sights on K–12| Education Next
Fiscal Year 2026 Appropriations State of Play With funding for the current fiscal year expiring on September 30, Congress must revisit Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations upon its return from the August recess. APLU continues to update the association’s appropriations chart as FY26 bills are released. Prior to the August recess, the House Appropriations Committee approved nine appropriations bills. Two […]| APLU
2015's Every Student Succeeds Act rolls back much of the federal government's big footprint in education policy.| Education Week
A provision in the Every Student Succeeds Act allows the secretary of education to waive certain state requirements.| Education Week
The federal education tax credit tucked into President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” would fund private and religious K-12 school scholarships for all but the nation’s wealthiest families. The initiative is a sharp break from decades of federal education policy that focused on strengthening public schools, particularly for low-income and historically underserved […]| Untitled - FutureEd
Action on NIH Grants APLU Urges Restoration of all NIH Grants Last week, APLU and partner associations sent a letter to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, requesting reinstatement of all grants terminated by NIH under agency directives found unlawful by a United States District Court in American Public Health Association v. NIH. The letter notes the U.S. Court […] The post Washington Update appeared first on APLU.| APLU
The Trump megabill hands the richest 1% a trillion-dollar windfall while gutting funding for health care, education, and disaster relief — leaving communities to pick up the pieces. State and local leaders must step up, tax the wealthiest fairly, and safeguard the essentials that keep America healthy, educated, and safe.| ITEP
Last week, President Trump fired the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in apparent retaliation for weak jobs numbers. The move drew sharp criticism for spooking investors and weakening trust in official data. But it also reflects a deeper problem: the ongoing erosion of the federal data infrastructure.| ITEP
$890 million in Title III grants moved to the federal office of English language acquisition in December.| Education Week
The recently passed budget reconciliation bill prioritizes tax cuts and expands loopholes for the wealthy and corporations while cutting more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and food assistance – all while adding $3.4 trillion to the national deficit. This legislation leaves hardworking Missouri families behind by providing only modest, temporary tax reductions that are outweighed by the loss of health coverage, food assistance, and other critical benefits – while permanently expanding loo...| Missouri Budget Project - Shaping Policies. Creating Opportunties.
Two popular programs that offered classroom resources for math and science teachers have lost their federal funding.| Education Week
The current U.S. push to preserve global edge echoes the Cold War drive to counter Soviet threat.| Education Week
More than $5 billion in previously-frozen federal funds will start flowing next week.| Education Week
The cost of compliance is so high, the lawsuit argues, some Head Start programs could be forced to close.| Education Week
Can teachers' unions thread the needle between countering widespread anti-union measures and broadening membership and public support?| Education Week
The bill will stress a major funding stream schools rely on, leading to ripple effects that make it harder for schools to offer free meals.| Education Week
The RFBC was a catalytic opportunity to build capacity for small businesses across the state—from regional producers and processors to Indigenous-led food initiatives and rural co-ops. Its loss disrupts food security planning, economic development, and supply chain resilience in every region.| Alaska Food Policy Council
The Senate is drafting a budget reconciliation bill and recent versions have included provisions mandating the sale of federal public lands, ostensibly to address America's affordable housing crisis. These provisions includes a mandatory minimum, a rushed process with no public input, and fails to consider the loss of federal income generated by those lands, so the full economic impacts to communities throughout the West is not being considered. The mandatory selling of federal land, at the s...| westernlandowners.org
Trump is directing several federal agencies to look into expanding school choice offerings—a push that continues from his first term.| Education Week
Title I and IDEA funding could be caught up in the battle between the White House and the largest state, which is led by Democrats.| Education Week
The House of Representatives’ recently passed tax bill changes course on taxing multinational corporations engaged in shifting U.S. profits overseas, offering massive tax giveaways that weaken American revenues and risk sending more American corporate investment offshore.| ITEP
The House tax plan cuts charitable giving tax incentives for donors to most nonprofit groups while roughly tripling the incentive available to donors to groups that fund private K-12 school vouchers. The bill would also allow private school voucher donors to avoid capital gains tax on their gifts of corporate stock, creating a profitable tax shelter for wealthy people who agree to help funnel public funds into private schools. The bill would reduce federal tax revenue by $23.2 billion over th...| ITEP
Education Week tracked state responses to an April 2025 Education Department request for states and schools to certify they don't use DEI.| Education Week
The White House has no authority over curriculum, and no ability to unilaterally pull back federal dollars, but Trump is toeing the line.| Education Week
Dear WLA Members, I’m writing today with some thoughts regarding current changes in United States federal policy. Western Landowners Alliance (WLA) is a non-partisan, landowner-led organization, dedicated to caring for the lands that sustain us. Our work is guided by people with boots on the ground who understand the importance and practical realities of agricultural production, land management and natural resource conservation. In today’s highly charged political environment, it is chall...| westernlandowners.org
No one political party enjoys a monopoly on truth, good intentions, or rightness| Education Week
PBMs make billions while driving up the price of drugs with markups that can exceed 1,000%, according to an FTC report released Jan. 14.| Bio.News
PBM industry that has driven reimbursement so low as to threaten the viability of local community pharmacies.| Bio.News
Rather than incentivizing PBMs to seek out medicines with high prices, there is a movement to “delink” price and PBM compensation.| Bio.News
PBMs save money with “step therapy,” which tries to displace a provider’s clinical judgment in favor of the medicine selected by the PBM.| Bio.News
Biden focused much of his annual speech on the mental health and well-being of children and youth.| Education Week
As state debates rage, the U.S. Department of Education promises to update Title IX. But details and timing remain uncertain.| Education Week
The Education Department received more than 200,000 comments on proposed changes to Title IX sex discrimination regulations.| Education Week
But the U.S. Department of Education did not include transgender participation in sports in the latest version of revised Title IX regulations.| Education Week
Details of a bipartisan Senate agreement on guns outline additional funding to support student mental health programs.| Education Week
A bipartisan push to study the impacts on student mental health and academics comes as more schools restrict their use.| Education Week
We break down what the GOP's 2024 policy platform says about education.| Education Week
The Education Department released a long-awaited proposed change to Title IX aiming to clarify eligibility criteria for school sports.| Education Week
The Recycling Partnership applauds today’s announcement by the Biden Administration to combat plastic pollution and utilize a whole-of-government approach that includes recycling, reuse, and source reduction. The strategy makes it clear that emerging and comprehensive national policy can change our linear economy. | The Recycling Partnership
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The comprehensive policy agenda proposes eliminating the U.S. Department of Education under a conservative president.| Education Week
The union head's call to support Kamala Harris is one sign of Democratic support coalescing around the vice president.| Education Week
A key federal funding source for schools would disappear under the conservative policy agenda.| Education Week
A federal appeals court ruling has put the funding mechanism for the nearly 30-year-old E-rate program in legal jeopardy.| Education Week
A conservative policy agenda could offer the clearest view yet of K-12 education in a second Trump term.| Education Week
Food for the Spirit has been active in campaigns for a New York State farm bill, as well as a nationwide effort supporting a transformative farm bill. Despite recent setbacks in the House Agriculture Committee, they continue to push for fair and just agricultural policies. They encourage engagement through story sharing, contacting legislators, and learning about farm bill basics. The post Advocating for a Transformational Farm Bill appeared first on Food for the Spirit.| Food for the Spirit
As the nation’s English-learner population continues to grow , researchers look to the Title III for how to best support these students.| Education Week
Join us for a virtual film screening event titled "Power of Narrative: Creating An Equitable Food & Farm Bill" hosted by Black Farmers United NYS, Equity Advocates, and others, showcasing a 15-minute film featuring BIPOC voices in food and farming. The event includes insights from guest speakers and is part of a collective farm bill campaign.| Food for the Spirit
