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

The massive and multifaceted policy responses to the financial crisis and Great Recession — ranging from traditional fiscal stimulus to tools that policymakers invented on the fly — dramatically ...

During its first few weeks, the Trump Administration has unleashed a flurry of measures to radically reshape the federal government. Many of these moves are overtly unlawful. This paper identifies the ...

The House Agriculture Committee reconciliation bill would radically alter the structure of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits by requiring states to pay a portion of food ...

Years of underfunding have forced the Social Security Administration (SSA) to serve the growing number of beneficiaries with fewer staff, creating customer service woes that the Trump Administration ...

U.S. families are grappling with increased costs for many necessities: groceries, housing, health care, utilities, gasoline, and more. Although Donald Trump pledged as President that he would improve ...

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 ...

Fiscal year 2025 started on October 1, but its funding under a stopgap continuing resolution runs out on December 20, 2024. Policymakers are debating whether to finalize 2025 appropriations during ...

Federal rental assistance enables families to afford good-quality, stable housing, avoid homelessness and other forms of housing insecurity, and make ends meet. Three major programs – Housing Choice ...

House Reconciliation Bill Proposes Deepest SNAP Cut in History, Would Take Food Assistance Away From Millions of Low-Income Families More Than 2 Million Children Live in Households That Would Lose at ...

Today’s cash assistance program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), continues to provide very low benefits — at or below 60 percent of the poverty line in every state. Low family grants ...

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 ...