LAWRENCE — Anti-poverty advocates and a Democratic congresswoman on Thursday accused the Trump administration of “doubling down” on spending cuts that could harm the state’s lowest-income residents.

President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget proposal includes the total elimination of the Community Services Block Grant, a little-known but vitally important source of funding aimed at reducing poverty for ...

DEAR HELOISE: Recently, I was approached to invest in something that has me puzzled. It was a program that offered what was called a community service block grant. It supposedly helps communities ...

Federal budget reductions, especially in human services, has been well publicized. Maui Economic Opportunity, Maui County’s Community Action Agency fighting poverty in our communities, has not been ...

In 1998, when Bethlehem’s future was anything but certain, community leaders in south Bethlehem worked with the leadership of Community Action Lehigh Valley and the city to create a nonprofit that ...