This week at CBPP, we focused on the federal budget, food assistance, health, and income security.On the federal budget, Brendan Duke testified before the Senate Budget ...

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

Testimony of Diana Azevedo-McCaffrey, Senior Policy Analyst on Housing and Income Security Team, Submitted to the Maryland House Appropriations Committee in Support of H.1490 I am Diana ...

Policymakers are appropriately considering additional stimulus measures in the face of mounting job losses and other dire economic signs due to COVID-19. A top item on their list should be raising ...

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 ...

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

This week at CBPP, we focused on food assistance, health, housing, and the economy.

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 ...

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 ...

Medicaid is the largest health insurer in the United States, at over 80 million enrollees. [2] Its numerous benefits to enrollees include greater likelihood of completing school, higher wages, better ...

When COVID-19 began to spread rapidly across the United States in March 2020, the economy quickly shed more than 20 million jobs. Amid intense fear and hardship, federal policymakers responded, ...