Addressing the nation’s long-term fiscal problems with any constitutional amendment to require annual balanced budgets would ...

Everyone should be able to see a doctor when they are sick, afford their prescriptions, and get the preventative care their ...

Annual premium increase, 60-year-old couple with income of $85,000 (401% FPL), by congressional district, 119th Congress Note: FPL = federal poverty level. Examples are based on 2026 average ...

With just weeks to go until the premium tax credit (PTC) enhancements expire — which would increase Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...

The Trump Administration became so determined to deny people their SNAP benefits that it fought all the way to the Supreme Court, even though the funds were available and it had the legal authority to ...

This week at CBPP, we focused on health, food assistance, state budgets and taxes, and climate change.On health, Gideon Lukens underscored that the Trump Administration’s ...

As we mark the 50th anniversary of President Johnson’s War on Poverty, we should recognize that poverty has fallen significantly over the last half-century when measured using a comprehensive poverty ...

Some conservative critics of federal social programs, including leading presidential candidates, are sounding an alarm that the United States is rapidly becoming an “entitlement society” in which ...

Most states’ prison populations are at historic highs after decades of extraordinary growth; in 36 states, the prison population has more than tripled as a share of the state population since 1978.

The national recession has had such a devastating effect on state finances that states took in $87 billion less in tax revenue from October 2008 through September 2009 than they collected in the ...

The bipartisan Child Tax Credit expansion in the tax bill negotiated by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden and House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith takes an important step toward ...