PPL Electric Utilities customers seeking federal assistance paying their electric bill will have roughly another month to apply for a cash grant through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.

File - A 235-kilovolt power line towers over farm buildings near where the local power utility plans to build a 500-kilovolt power line on towers as tall as 240 feet, March 4, 2026, in Sugarloaf, Pa. ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — A Travis County district court judge granted a request for a temporary injunction to block the latest rule changes to the state’s Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program.

Some Californians may lose CalFresh food assistance due to multiple changes affecting eligibility for the program — one of which could impact hundreds of thousands in the state. Asylees, refugees and ...

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ALBANY – New York’s powerful 1199 SEIU union is already cashing in on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s disastrous and allegedly rigged revamp of the state’s $11 billion home care Medicaid program, The Post has ...

The pathway to building a career in the United States for many highly educated and skilled foreign workers was once clear: Earn a degree from an American university or college, and then be recruited ...

Students approach the window at FirstPoint Office. As a result of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” Boston University will change its approaches to financial aid for undergraduate and graduate ...

Walmart can now update prices instantly at many stores, meaning deals (and regular prices) may change faster than shoppers are used to. While Walmart says it’s not using surge pricing, the tech allows ...

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After her daughter turned 1 year old, Nat Choran started to notice a problem. Her toddler didn’t know many words. The family tried many things but the biggest difference, Choran said, came after they ...