In May, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a proposed rule that would upend the federal grantmaking process by ...

Everyone deserves affordable, safe energy to meet their everyday needs. But average electricity bills have risen close to 6 ...

Congress has passed a short-term funding measure to fund the government into December, but it still must pass full-year funding bills for fiscal year 2027. While the Senate has not yet introduced any ...

New research finds that 1 in 3 people applying for SNAP benefits are denied not because they are ineligible, but because they don’t make it through the complex process.

Between the Republican reconciliation law’s July 2025 enactment and June 2026 (the last month with data on all states): These participation declines began before some of the major changes from the ...

To create the federal rental assistance factsheets for the 50 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and the United States, CBPP analyzed survey data from the American Community Survey (ACS) ...

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is a high-caliber strategic policy institute that informs and shapes public policies to reduce poverty, promote equity, and build opportunity. It has ...

The Treasury Department has proposed a rule that would take away the refunded portion of certain tax credits from many individuals with lawful immigration status. [1] Only individuals who have one of ...

At a moment when the cuts enacted in last year’s harmful Republican reconciliation law have begun to take away food assistance and health coverage from millions of people, today’s Census data are a ...

As children head back to school, it’s important to remember the role SNAP plays in supporting their healthy development. SNAP helps ensure that children have enough food and improves their health and ...