Layoffs at Health and Human Services, and Vermont Poet Laureate Bianca Stone

09/04/2025 49 min
Layoffs at Health and Human Services, and Vermont Poet Laureate Bianca Stone

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Today on Vermont Edition, we'll explore the massive changes underway at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A program known as LIHEAP offsets utility bills for more than 6 million Americans. Vermont Public reporter Abagael Giles tells us about the future of the program. We’ll also talk with a Head Start supervisor in Windham Southeast school district, and the head of an agency that feeds hundreds of low-income, older Vermonters. Plus: Vermont’s poet laureate, Bianca Stone helps us celebrate National Poetry Month.