Daniel Wheaton

Lincoln

Data Reporter at Nebraska Public Media

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Articles

How Medicaid work requirements would affect people in Midwest states

1 week ago | nprillinois.org | Daniel Wheaton

Nearly 1 million Midwesterners could lose access to Medicaid if Congress passes a law requiring states to implement a work requirement for coverage, a new analysis found. The work rule may be included in a series of cost-cutting measures in the upcoming budget deal. The specifics are still being hashed out. The study was published earlier this month by the Urban Institute, a DC-based think tank, and funded through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
How Medicaid work requirements would affect people in Midwest states

2 weeks ago | lpm.org | Daniel Wheaton

Nearly 1 million Midwesterners could lose access to Medicaid if Congress passes a law requiring states to implement a work requirement for coverage, a new analysis found. The work rule may be included in a series of cost-cutting measures in the upcoming budget deal. The specifics are still being hashed out. The study was published earlier this month by the Urban Institute, a DC-based think tank, and funded through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
How Medicaid work requirements would affect people in Midwest states

3 weeks ago | iowapublicradio.org | Daniel Wheaton

Nearly 1 million Midwesterners could lose access to Medicaid if Congress passes a law requiring states to implement a work requirement for coverage, a new analysis found. The work rule may be included in a series of cost-cutting measures in the upcoming budget deal. The specifics are still being hashed out. The study was published earlier this month by the Urban Institute, a DC-based think tank, and funded through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
How Medicaid work requirements would affect people in Midwest states

3 weeks ago | nebraskapublicmedia.org | Daniel Wheaton

Nearly 1 million Midwesterners could lose access to Medicaid if Congress passes a law requiring states to implement a work requirement for coverage, a new analysis found. The work rule may be included in a series of cost-cutting measures in the upcoming budget deal. The specifics are still being hashed out. The study was published earlier this month by the Urban Institute, a DC-based think tank, and funded through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Nebraskans voted along long-held political divides, county analysis shows

Nov 7, 2024 | nebraskapublicmedia.org | Daniel Wheaton

The state ballot measures showed much more division with voters than the top of the ticket. On Amendment 439, which would expand the right to an abortion up to fetal viability, voters on the eastern edge of the state generally voted for the measure, while the margin between the two sides was much more close along the I-80 corridor. The measure was rejected with 51.3% voting against it.
Poll shows Nov. 5 vote on dueling Nebraska abortion measures could be close

Oct 11, 2024 | kcur.org | Dale Johnson |Daniel Wheaton |Holly Edgell

New polling suggests Nebraskans support both measures on abortion as well as reject a plan to allow taxpayer funds to go to private schools. The Midwest Newsroom partnered with Emerson College Polling to conduct surveys of registered voters in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska between Sept. 26 and Oct. 2. The sample size was 1,000 persons in each state, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3% and a 95% confidence level. The four polls included questions specific about issues on Nov.
Poll: Plurality of Nebraskans support both abortion measures, majority reject school vouchers

Oct 10, 2024 | nebraskapublicmedia.org | Daniel Wheaton |Dale Johnson

Dale Johnson: Holly, why take this on? Holly Edgell: Well, Dale, we really wanted to provide people in our four states, which often get overlooked in national discourse, with a look at what their their neighbors and friends are actually thinking about a number of issues. So not just what's on the ballot in November, which we do include some of those, but also there's a just a wide range of issues that keep coming up in sort of public debate and discourse.
A 'hidden population' of homeless students in the Midwest isn't getting school services

Oct 8, 2024 | nebraskapublicmedia.org | Daniel Wheaton |Kavahn Mansouri

Haynes said students eligible to receive aid from McKinney-Vento typically don’t fit the public perception of homelessness, especially in rural areas. For instance, while some students do live on the streets, the majority in the four-state region are students who are “doubled up,” or living in temporary shared housing. This can include children who are attending school while living with extended families or even their grandparents. These students are McKinney-Vento eligible.
Here’s what Midwest voters say about abortion, climate change, and other key issues

Oct 6, 2024 | iowapublicradio.org | Holly Edgell |Daniel Wheaton

One month before the general election, a sense of pessimism about life in the U.S. unites many residents of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, according to a set of new polls from The Midwest Newsroom and Emerson College Polling.
Tenants across the Midwest cry foul as private equity firms buy up and then neglect homes

Dec 25, 2023 | kcur.org | Kavahn Mansouri |Daniel Wheaton

In May, NPR’s Midwest Newsroom published an investigation into VineBrook Homes, a private equity firm that owns and rents thousands of single-family homes across the Midwest. This company was the third largest landlord in Omaha in 2023.