Kai Risdahl

Montana's next in July, and by next year, everybody on Medicaid who's not a child or elderly is going to have to prove they're either working, in school or volunteering, or that they qualify for an exemption.

The thing is, and yes, finally getting back to Mr. Twain here, this isn't the first time that Medicaid has had work requirements.

And a study last month in the Milbank Quarterly, that's a health policy journal, about how cuts have played out in the past, does offer some clues about what might lie ahead.

Marketplace's Samantha Fields has more on that one.

Coming up... I smelled it just now.

Smells like sulfur or rotten eggs.

Used to smell like money.

Now it smells like... that.

First, though, let's do the numbers.

So here we are, enthusiastically.

Dow Industrials up 228 points today, about a half percent, 51,307.

NASDAQ up seven points.

We'll call that flat percentage-wise, 27,093.

The S&P 500 up nine points, about a tenth percent, 76 and nine there.

Kristen Schwab was telling us about what first quarter earnings reports have to say about the state of consumer America.

Here are some companies she mentioned.

McDonald's expanded eight-tenths percent.

Tapestry, which owns the Coach brand, unwound one-tenth, one percent.

TJX, parent company of TJ Maxx and others, increased about six-tenths percent.

Dollar General, we were talking about them yesterday, reported first quarter earnings today that beat analyst estimates.