The sweeping Republican tax-cut bill includes new requirements that are projected to remove millions from the Medicaid ...

The program covers nearly 3.5 million people in Illinois, or about a quarter of the state’s population. According to the ...

A new working paper from the University of Chicago provides the strongest evidence to date that expanding access to health ...

Illinois lawmakers have approved a $55.2 billion budget with new taxes on sports betting and nicotine, plus cuts to immigrant ...

But legislators have also been making changes. In January, an Illinois law went into effect forbidding credit bureaus from factoring in medical debt in credit reports and scores. That follows a policy ...

The House-passed Republican reconciliation plan would cut nearly $300 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

While the state infuses hundreds of millions a year into child care programs, the strict eligibility requirements and ...

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois ... the company disproportionately exposes low-income, rural, military, and Black ...

Gov. JB Pritzker’s positioning of Illinois as a sanctuary state, a welcoming port for immigrants from across the globe, hit ...

JB Pritzker's positioning of Illinois as ... about federal cuts to Medicaid somehow have enough in state coffers to cover the immigrant programs. “The high cost of the program outweighs some ...

More than 3.4 million Illinois residents are on Medicaid — about one-fourth of the state’s population. Medicaid is a health insurance program for low-income people that’s funded by the state ...