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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Statement of Kathleen Romig, Senior Fellow, on 2026 Social Security Trustees’ Report The 2026 annual report of the Social Security trustees released today shows a worsening outlook for the program’s ...

The Trump Administration’s final rule implementing the new Medicaid work requirement makes major, last-minute policy shifts that will likely increase the number of people who are denied or lose health ...

The Trump Administration deliberately caused the loss of an unprecedented number of workers from the Social Security Administration (SSA) in its first year in office, reducing staffing by roughly ...

Almost a year since the Trump Administration began rapidly and radically cutting the federal workforce without congressional approval, it has for the first time released data publicly showing the ...

The Trump Administration and congressional Republicans advanced one of the most radically regressive policy agendas in our nation’s history during the first year of President Trump’s second term. As a ...

Since the start of President Trump’s second term in January, the Trump Administration has consistently sought to evade accountability. It has engaged in a series of unprecedented, irresponsible, and ...