Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

By: Kate Giammarise

With many businesses still partially or completely closed and unemployment climbing, some Pennsylvanians are turning to public programs to make ends meet — though far fewer than might be expected given double-digit jobless numbers and long lines at free food distribution sites… A dozen states have posted April enrollment data for Medicaid, and all but one show “notable increases in enrollment,” wrote Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, in an analysis earlier this month. “Medicaid is a critical piece of what families need when times are tough, so it is not surprising that the economic collapse is leading to large Medicaid enrollment increases and we are now just starting to see real evidence of that happening,” she wrote.

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