TANF is the main program that provides cash support for families with the lowest incomes, and it has failed to provide that ...
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 ...
This week at CBPP, we focused on food assistance, state budgets and taxes, and health.
Increasingly, Medicare enrollees receive their benefits through a Medicare Advantage (MA) health plan offered by a private insurer rather than from traditional Medicare, which is a government-run, ...
The tax provisions of the Republican megabill double down on the failures of the 2017 tax law, which was skewed in favor of the richest people in the country, was expensive and eroded the nation’s ...
The 2025 Republican megabill (H.R. 1) will take Medicaid coverage away from millions of people for not meeting rigid work requirements. Many will actually be Medicaid-eligible — because they either ...
Note: this analysis complements CBPP’s “Chart Book: Tracking the Recovery from the Pandemic Recession,” which contains data and analysis through the end of 2023. [1] The U.S. economy entered 2023 with ...
This spreadsheet analyzes AFDC and TANF caseload and poverty data from 1978 until 2023. Following TANF’s inception in 1996, the national TANF-to-poverty ratio has continued to decline until 2023, when ...
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) has begun publishing guidance outlining how states must begin implementing some of the deepest SNAP cuts from the Republican megabill enacted in July. [1] While ...
Nearly 70 million people with low incomes got their health coverage through Medicaid as of October 2025. [1] The program is a critical source of coverage for many populations, but the Republican ...
The landscape assessment is a compilation of state-by-state eligibility, operations, and outcome data across all 50 states and DC on Medicaid, SNAP, WIC and TANF. It pulls together into a single place ...
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