The State Policy Fellowship program is a two-year research-focused fellowship dedicated to making change through careful research, thoughtful advocacy, and strong partnerships in a state policy ...

McCaffrey, Senior Policy Analyst on the Housing and Income Security team at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research and policy institute in ...

About 6 million people will lose SNAP food assistance if BBCE is eliminated — more than 4 million of them, including 1.8 ...

Our nation faces serious long-term fiscal challenges. Addressing them will require policymakers to recognize several realities.

SNAP provides important nutritional support for working families with low-paying jobs, low-income older adults (60 years and older) and people with disabilities living on fixed incomes, and other ...

While SNAP provides only a modest benefit, it forms a critical foundation for the health and well-being of America’s children.The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) delivers more ...

Over 600,000 people are released from state and federal prisons every year. [1] They reenter their communities with a set of complex needs and challenging vulnerabilities, including chronic physical ...

In 2020, for every 100 families in poverty nationwide, only 21 received TANF cash assistance — down from 68 families in 1996. Families experiencing poverty need access to cash assistance to help them ...

Late last night, the House Agriculture Committee voted to advance a deeply flawed farm bill that turns its back on the millions of low-income families struggling to afford groceries in the wake ...

Hospitals’ and other providers’ uncompensated care costs have fallen significantly since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) major coverage provisions. But approved and proposed ...

These figures are sometimes cited as evidence that low- and moderate-income families do not pay sufficient taxes. Yet these figures, their significance, and their policy implications are widely ...

Recent federal policy decisions by congressional Republicans and the Trump Administration have made health care even more unaffordable for millions of people. In the wake of their actions that have ...