Poverty and Opportunity
The nation suffers from persistent poverty and stagnant incomes of low- and moderate-income people. Policy Futures develops federal and state policies to reduce poverty and promote opportunity. It documents and amplifies what works, develops and advances reforms to address intractable poverty, and examines how to implement programs more effectively. It focuses in particular on reducing child poverty and enhancing longer-term economic success for today’s children and young adults.
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Pediatricians: Safety Net Key to Children’s Health and Development
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) called on policymakers this week to do more for children’s health and development — and some of its strongest words concerned not health care but...
TANF at 20: Time to Create a Program that Supports Work and Helps Families Meet Their Basic Needs
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant, established 20 years ago, is overdue for reform. TANF’s combination of nearly unfettered state flexibility, fixed block grant...
A Top Priority to Address Poverty: Strengthening the Child Tax Credit for Very Poor Young Children
Today, the poorest children qualify for only a very small CTC or no tax credit at...
Impact of the Safety Net: State Fact Sheets
For more information, refer to Impact of the Safety Net: State Fact Sheets, Data Sources, and...
Roundup: Our Take on House GOP Leaders’ New Poverty and Health Proposals
We’ve compiled CBPP’s analyses and blog posts to date on the poverty and health care proposals that Speaker Paul Ryan and other House Republican leaders released this...
House Bill Would Undercut FCC Effort to Promote Upward Mobility
Just two weeks after House Republicans released their poverty plan with the principle that all “should have the chance to make the most of our lives” and “break free” from poverty, they’ve...
GOP Poverty Plan Would Hurt Some of Most Vulnerable Children
The House GOP poverty plan would eliminate Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for 1.3 million severely disabled children in poor families, vaguely proposing to re-orient SSI to provide...
Policy Brief: Boosting SNAP Benefits Would Improve Diets of Low-Income Households
New research finds that raising SNAP benefits would not only increase low-income households’ spending on food but also improve the nutritional quality of their...
The Relationships Among SNAP Benefits, Grocery Spending, Diet Quality, and the Adequacy of Low-Income Families’ Resources
Supporting households’ access to nutritious foods in adequate amounts has long been the primary goal of the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), which now assists about 45 million...
Work Requirements Don’t Cut Poverty, Evidence Shows
The evidence indicates that work requirements do little to reduce poverty, and in some cases, push families deeper into...
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