TANF’s block grant structure to states, federal policies that take away cash assistance if a parent doesn’t meet a harsh work ...

President Trump last week threatened legal action against the Center for American Progress (CAP) for publishing a report with ...

In recent years, more than 40 percent of eligible individuals have missed out on the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), despite the program’s ...

Two key tax credit provisions in the American Rescue Plan Act will provide significant help to those on the fault lines of some of the pandemic’s worst economic effects. People who have lower incomes, ...

Cash assistance helps provide stability to families through life’s challenges. A cash assistance program whose benefits are not conditioned on when or how someone has children or on caregivers’ past ...

Inflation is one of the most important and frequently discussed economic topics. Economists, policymakers, and the public care about inflation because it leads to the same amount of money in your ...

Cuts Would Take Assistance Away From People in Every State The budget resolution that the House plans to take up this week directs the House Agriculture Committee to cut programs in its jurisdiction ...

Roughly 15.7 million workers, or about 10 percent of all workers, are in households where someone participated in SNAP in the last year. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly ...

Everyone needs enough resources to afford food, a roof over their heads, and health care as well as access to affordable, high-quality child care and other caregiving supports. Programs including the ...

Some of President Obama’s critics and political opponents have launched a line of argument that Obama is mostly to blame for the large federal budget deficits projected for the coming decade and that ...

A proposal in the Biden-Harris Administration’s 2025 budget [1] would require households with more than $100 million in wealth to pay income taxes of at least 25 percent of their annual income, ...

Black and Hispanic or Latino [1] unemployment rates are consistently higher than white rates, gaps that widen quickly in recessions and narrow much more slowly after an economic recovery begins. These ...