We do the same with food.” For Honyotski, the meals — delivered weekly ... About a decade ago, Waters said Community Servings approached health care leaders in the Bay State with a question: “What would it take for you to pay us to feed people?”

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a major restructuring of the Health and Human Services Department, which now employs about 82,000 people.

Kennedy Jr. is making good on his promise to lay off thousands of employees across the government’s health care agencies. Overnight, employees of the Department of Health and Human Services lost their jobs as part of a reduction in force that aims to cut 10,

The layoffs are expected to impact 3,500 employees at the Food and Drug Administration and 2,400 employees from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- nearly one-fifth of the workforce at both public health divisions,