A family applying for TANF cash assistance in the United States must assign its right to child support to the state. From that point the money a noncustodial parent pays is collected by the child support program as a government receivable rather than as income for the child. In …
In 32 states and the federal system, law enforcement agencies keep between 90 and 100 percent of civil forfeiture proceeds, in funds those agencies themselves control. Another 12 states award between 45 and 80 percent. Six states and the District of Columbia — Maine, Maryland, M…
The Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2013 requires every state to report each death in law enforcement custody to the Department of Justice every quarter, and it gives the Attorney General exactly one lever — a reduction of up to 10 percent in the Byrne JAG award of a state tha…
The Department of Defense received a disclaimer of opinion on its agency-wide financial statements for the fiscal year ended 2025-09-30, in an auditor report dated 2025-12-18. It was the eighth consecutive disclaimer since full-scope auditing began in FY2018. The reporting entit…
About 12.1 million people were enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid in July 2024, roughly 18 percent of all Medicare beneficiaries — 8.7 million with full Medicaid benefits and 3.4 million with partial benefits. Of the 11.7 million counted in the MedPAC coverage table for that…
A Bureau of Prisons staffing overview published 2024-05-30, describing the workforce as of 2024-05-04, reports three incompatible vacancy figures for that one workforce. On the correctional officer job series it shows 20,446 authorized posts against 15,477 filled, which is 24 pe…
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138,411–194,617as of low from a population reading of 2026-08-06; high from the FY2024 prison population plus staffing as of 2024-05-04
The Federal Emergency Management Agency recorded over 4,300 separations in fiscal year 2025, about 17 percent of a workforce that averaged 25,134 employees that year, and a 55 percent increase over the 2,791 separations of fiscal year 2024. In the same year the agency suspended …
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17,327,963–85,117,186as of FY2025-FY2026 to date, declarations pulled 2026-08-07, population vintage 2024
In 2026 the United States Department of Agriculture designated 245 veterinary shortage areas across 47 states, a figure published on 2026-02-02. The preceding set, for FY2025, was 243 areas across 46 states and was described as a record. The set before that, in 2024, was 240 acr…
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1,281,215–3,333,333as of 2022 Census of Agriculture
The No Surprises Act built a federal balance-billing regime for hospitals, clinicians and air ambulances. Ground ambulances sit outside it. On the freshest national estimate available, 85 percent of emergency ground ambulance transports were delivered out of network, measured on…
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840,000–2,550,000as of 2014-2017 shares on a base of unstated data year
Every summer a body of water on the Louisiana and Texas continental shelf loses enough oxygen to stress or kill the fish, shrimp and crabs living in it. The zone measured 4,402 square miles when it was surveyed on 2025-07-20 through 2025-07-25, and the five-year running average,…
The Highway Trust Fund pays out more than it collects every year, and the difference is closed by moving money out of the General Fund. The Highway Account closed June 2026 holding about USD 47.07 billion, after collecting USD 31.70 billion and paying out USD 39.62 billion in th…
US public school districts identified 1,548,191 students as experiencing homelessness during the 2023-24 school year, which is 3.1 percent of the 49,691,210 students enrolled that year. Federal law places the duty to find those students on the school district, and the count that…
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310,000–3,100,000as of SY2022-23 for the low bound; SY2023-24 count carrying a SY2018-19 ratio for the high bound
Federal law describes a full funding level for special education as 40 percent of the national average per-pupil expenditure. In FY2025 the appropriation for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part B grants-to-states program equaled about 10.2 percent of that nation…
The federal coal ash rule at 40 CFR part 257, subpart D binds regulated units directly. No permit is issued and no agency reviews a site before the requirements attach, so the routine check on whether a unit complies is a website the operator maintains about itself. As of 2026-0…
The federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit buys a 30-year affordability commitment, and the same statute lets an owner out after year 15. The route is called a qualified contract, and it sits inside Section 42(h)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code, the very paragraph that imposes th…
Of the new manufactured homes constructed in 2024, 78 percent were titled as personal property and 18 percent as real estate, according to the Census and HUD Manufactured Housing Survey figures cited by the Federal Housing Finance Agency in a proposed rule published 2026-06-24. …
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3,870,000–4,085,000as of 2025 homesites and 2021 occupancy
An estimated 1,208,000 uninsured adults ages 19 to 64 live below the federal poverty level in states that have not adopted the Medicaid expansion, and no coverage program is available to them at any income. The figure is a KFF estimate built on the 2024 American Community Survey…
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1,208,000–2,400,000as of 2024 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, published by KFF 2026-07-27
More than 600,000 people sat on Medicaid home-care waiting or interest lists across 41 states in the state survey KFF published on 2025-11-20, and the average reported wait was 32 months. The total rose 14 percent over the prior year, with 29 states reporting an increase and 12 …
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275,000–600,000as of 2025 state survey published 2025-11-20
The United States has a federal mental health parity rule that no federal agency is enforcing. On 2025-05-15 the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury jointly announced they would not enforce the 2024 rule implementing the Mental Health Parity and Add…
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18,000,000–182,789,900as of coverage counts 2024; enforcement window 2023-08-01 to 2025-07-31
The Waste Emissions Charge is the only charge the United States federal government has ever imposed directly on a greenhouse gas. Congress wrote it into the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and set it to begin with methane emissions reported for calendar year 2024. As of 2026-08-…