Applications are now being accepted for this year’s Beautiful Blocks home improvement program in the cities of Carbondale, Scranton and Pittston. Beautiful Blocks is jointly sponsored by NeighborWorks ...

The University of Illinois Springfield is offering free tax preparation services for the first time. The program is part of the Internal Revenue Service’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, ...

Alabama legislators are asking questions and learning more about how President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” will affect the state budget, and some of the answers are troubling. The law cut federal ...

(WAND) - Local apprenticeship programs are getting funding from the state. Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity awarded more than $17 million Monday, ...

ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has opted into the federal program established by the Big Beautiful Bill, ninth state to do so. It allows taxpayers to contribute up to $1,700 to a state-approved ...

OpenJDK project teams will focus work on features such as value types, code reflection, AOT compilation, and structured concurrency in the coming year. Oracle’s Java team in 2026 will work toward ...

Firms that rely on pricey equipment are benefiting from a tax incentive known as ‘bonus depreciation.’ As part of our video series on President Trump’s second term, WSJ’s Richard Rubin takes us to the ...

Medicaid is a federal program jointly funded with the states, providing health and long-term care insurance to more than 80 million low-income Americans. And if you didn’t know all of that, you’re not ...

(WKRC) - The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as "food stamps," is set to undergo significant changes in 2026, following recent approvals by the U.S. Department of ...

Administering the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly called food stamps, will get more expensive for states due to the federal budget reconciliation bill —the “One Big Beautiful Bill ...

South Main Street in Sheffield, Illinois. The town is part of a 136-square-mile opportunity zone. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act makes the opportunity zone program permanent and also introduces some ...