House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington, a Texas Republican, submitted a resolution on Wednesday that sought to cut $2 trillion in mandatory spending, which covers social programs, over a 10-year ...

In their analysis, economists David Macdonald and Erin McIntosh identified more than 120 individual programs that are at risk ...

A new large-scale analysis of existing research finds that school-provided social and emotional learning (SEL) programs improve students' academic achievement in addition to their social and emotional ...

Most Social Security recipients feel as though cuts are inevitable at some point in their lives. At the current deficit, Social Security would need to cut benefits by about 23% beginning in 2034.

Social Security's annual cost-of-living adjustment is aimed at helping the program's 75 million beneficiaries keep pace with inflation.

With less than 48 hours until a potential partial government shutdown, Congress and the White House continue to spar over whether to keep the government open or let health benefits expire for ...

Social-emotional learning has been swept up in bitter political fights over what should be taught in schools as some critics—including some high-profile conservative activist groups like Moms for ...

The federal government is scheduled to shut down on Wednesday if lawmakers do not pass a continuing resolution to keep the government funded. But what happens to benefit payments like Social Security, ...