California’s SSI/SSP Grants: How Do They Stack Up?

Over 5.5 million Californians depend on CalFresh — California’s name for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — to put food on the table every month. CalFresh provides modest monthly food assistance and, as one of the few means-tested programs that reaches almost all low-income people, is the state’s most important anti-hunger tool. In 2023, … Continued

Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is a lifeline for more than one-third of Californians, providing essential health care coverage to children, pregnant individuals, seniors, and people with disabilities. The recently enacted harmful Republican mega bill, H.R. 1, enacts the largest health care cuts in US history, with about $1 trillion cut from Medicaid. For California, the … Continued