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.
A “pocket rescission” involves transmitting a rescission request so late in the fiscal year that the funds would expire ...
No one in our country should go hungry, and SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) has been our nation’s most effective anti-hunger program for decades. However, sweeping cuts to SNAP ...
This week at CBPP, we focused on income security, poverty and inequality, and food assistance.
This week at CBPP, we focused on health, housing, the economy, food assistance, and the federal budget. On health, Allie Gardner explained how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized a ...
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) ...
This week at CBPP, we focused on health, housing, the economy, food assistance, and the federal budget. On health, Allie Gardner explained how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...
The tax cuts first enacted under President Bush in 2001 and 2003 have made the tax code less progressive and delivered a large windfall to the highest-income taxpayers. [1] Tax Policy Center estimates ...
Public investment in K-12 schools has declined dramatically in a number of states over the last decade.Public investment in K-12 schools — crucial for communities to thrive and the U.S. economy to ...