Deliberate policy choices by President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress have increased costs people pay to meet their ...
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey recently cited an $11 million cost when vetoing a program that would have helped youth ...
State lawmakers should look to worldwide combined reporting as a common-sense solution to shut down corporate tax avoidance ...
Click on a state in our map to learn how WIC provides healthy foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and ...
Over 2 million uninsured adults with incomes below the poverty line, most who live in the South and are people of color, don’t have a pathway to health coverage, because their states have refused to ...
Medicaid is a popular program that covers 72 million people. [1] The majority of U.S. adults across party affiliations oppose cuts to Medicaid. [2] Nevertheless, Republicans in Congress want to pass ...
This week at CBPP, we focused on health, state budgets, food assistance, poverty and inequality, and social security.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the primary cash assistance program for families with children when they face a crisis or have very low incomes, can play a key role in ensuring that ...
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of government policies and programs. It ...
The labor market showed some signs of improvement in 2004; most notable in this regard was the job growth that occurred in every month of the year. This was the first year of consistent job growth ...
What Is Federal Rental Assistance? Three major programs — Housing Choice Vouchers, Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance, and Public Housing — assist about 82 percent of the households receiving ...