"We can't set a bunch of money aside. I wish we could, I wish we had a secret stash, but we don't," said Kelly Neidel, ...

A broad federal funding freeze announced by the Trump administration last week, and blocked by a pair of judges, is destabilizing a wide range of programs despite the court interventions. Some ...

Cattaraugus-Wyoming Project Head Start abruptly shut down operations and temporarily laid off its 84 employees, suddenly leaving without child care nearly 200 children from low-income families.

As President Trump continues making cuts to federal programs and funding, Democratic leaders in Illinois are warning about ...

Many groups that rely on a federal payment portal started experiencing problems accessing funds last week. HHS says ...

But on Wednesday, Senator Schumer called on the United States Department of Health & Human Services to fix the payment system ...

A judge has temporarily blocked the Trump Administration’s plan to freeze trillions of dollars in federal funding. However, ...

Leaders at a Bloomington-based early childhood program for low-income families say they’ve stabilized the agency and begun ...

Head Start preschools serving thousands of children around the country could be at risk of closing because they remain locked out of their federal funding, a problem that first surfaced last week ...

Two of Illinois' top Democrats are blasting the Trump administration for taking back money earmarked for programs like Head Start.