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  • New Medicaid Federal Work Requirements Mean Less Leeway for States

    KATHERYN HOUGHTON and BRIAN SABLE-SMITH, KFF Health News|Aug 13, 2025

    When President Donald Trump signed a law adding work requirements for some Medicaid recipients, he may have undercut lawmakers in at least 14 states who were designing their own plans, according to health industry observers. Georgia is the only state with a work requirement in place for Medicaid, but several states have been pursuing such a policy for years, only to be blocked by courts or, most recently, the Biden administration. Some seek state-specific touches to the new rules. Others aim to implement work requirements before the federal...

  • Whitehall Schools Show No Lead; While Others Around State Suffer Dangerous Levels

    KATHERYN HOUGHTON, Kaiser Health News|Mar 9, 2022

    Editor’s Note: The Whitehall Ledger contacted Whitehall Schools Superintendent Hannah Nieskens about the below article, as several individuals had sent it to the paper, questioning what Whitehall’s lead rates were. “In fall 2021, Whitehall School Director of Maintenance, Scott Prevost, gathered water samples from all of the campus water fixtures and sent them to Bridger Analytical Lab for lead analysis; we received our results on January 28th. The results information has not yet shown up on the states’ DEQ website,” said Nieskens. “We presu...