Deliberate policy choices by President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress have increased costs people pay to meet their ...
A House subcommittee is expected to release next week its 2027 housing funding bill, giving Congress an opportunity to ...
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey recently cited an $11 million cost when vetoing a program that would have helped youth ...
Click on a state in our map to learn how WIC provides healthy foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and ...
Over 2 million uninsured adults with incomes below the poverty line, most who live in the South and are people of color, don’t have a pathway to health coverage, because their states have refused to ...
This week at CBPP, we focused on state budgets and taxes and on the economy.
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, ...
This week at CBPP, we focused on health, state budgets, food assistance, poverty and inequality, and social security.
The federally funded WIC program — formally the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children — is a cost-effective program that improves lifetime health for participating ...
Testimony of Wesley Tharpe, Senior Advisor for State Tax Policy, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, to the Rhode Island Senate Finance Committee Chair DiPalma, distinguished members — thank you ...