You may have heard how lots of cities have been giving people cash to fight poverty. Well, now the federal government is exploring doing that on a far bigger scale to help people pay rent. It could ...

If you have an issue on an upcoming flight that the airline has to compensate you for, you’ll now get cash instead of vouchers. New federal rules have been rolled out that require airlines to pay you ...

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Angie Atkins has been on a waitlist for a federal housing voucher for the better part of a decade. During that time, her rent in northwest Philadelphia kept rising, year after year, until it was ...