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Research Findings Show 18- to 49-Year Old Food Stamp Recipients Are Disadvantaged and Can Face Major Difficulties in the Job Market
Stacy Dean
12/29/99
34K-HTML, 51K-PDF

Checklist For Identifying Quality Work Sites For Public Job Creation Programs
Clifford Johnson
12/23/99
22K

Changes Since 1995 in the Safety Net's Impact on Child Poverty
Kathy Porter and Wendell Primus
12/23/99
12K-pr, 16K-summary, 330K-report

Federal Funding Sources for Job Creation Initiatives
Cliff Johnson and Steve Savner (CLASP)
12/21/99
46K

Should the Internet Remain a Sales Tax Haven?
Michael Mazerov
Revised 12/23/99
29K, 8pp
99-137, $3.00

Assuring That Child Health Applications Do Not Deter Enrollment Among Eligible Children in Noncitizen Families
Michelle Cochran and Cindy Mann
12/15/99
12K

Steps States Can Take to Facilitate Medicaid Enrollment of Children
Donna Cohen Ross
12/6/99
135K

Congress Lifts the Sunset on the "$500 Million Fund" Extends Opportunities for States to Ensure Parents and Children Do Not Lose Health Coverage
Donna Cohen Ross and Jocelyn Guyer
12/1/99
97K, 10pp
99-107, $3.00

How Early Childhood Programs Can Link Children to Free and Low-Cost Health Insurance Programs
Donna Cohen Ross
Revised 12/1/99
20K , 6pp
99-073, $3.00

Proposed Changes in The Official Measure of Poverty
Kathryn Porter
11/15/99
11K, 4pp
99-132, $3.00

Nickles Minimum Wage Bill Includes Costly Tax Cuts That Could Harm Lower-Wage Workers
Iris J. Lav
11/8/99
26K, 8pp
99-129, $3.00

How Schools Can Help Link Children to Free and Low-Cost Health Insurance Programs
Donna Cohen Ross
11/1/99
25K

Congressional Actions Would Not Avoid A Non-Social Security Deficit in 2000 But Social Security Would Not Be Raided or Harmed
James Horney and Robert Greenstein
11/1/99
26K, 6pp
99-128, $4.00

Criticism of CBPP Pension Analysis Rests on Selective Use of Data And Leaves Misleading Impressions
Peter Orszag, Iris J. Lav, and Robert Greenstein
10/28/99
52K, 11pp
99-126, $4.00

Spending a Non-Existent Surplus
James Horney
Rev. 10/26/99
47K, 7pp
99-123, $3.00

Missed Opportunities: Declining Medicaid Enrollment Undermines the Nation's Progress in Insuring Low-Income Children
Jocelyn Guyer, Matthew Broaddus, and Michelle Cochran
10/20/99
31K, 11pp
99-124, $4.00

Tax Cuts in Lazio Minimum Wage Bill Overwhelmingly Benefit High-Income Taxpayers
Iris J. Lav
10/19/99
19K, 6pp
99-121, $3.00

Exacerbating Inequities in Pension Benefits: An Analysis of The Pension Provisions in The Tax Bill
Peter R. Orszag, Iris Lav, and Robert Greenstein
10/8/99
10K-pr, 8K-summary, 63K-report, 15pp
99-120, $5.00

Testimony of Ed Lazere on Impact of Minimum Wage
Ed Lazere
10/7/99
13K

Would Congressional Spending Plans Avert a non-Social Security Deficit? What the CBO Letter Does and Does Not Mean
James Horney
10/6/99
22K, 5pp
99-119, $3.00

Tax Provisions in "Quality Care for the Uninsured Act" Largely Benefit High-Income Taxpayers And Do Not Help Most Uninsured
Iris J. Lav
10/6/99
20K, 7pp99-118, $3.00

Tax Cuts That May Be Added to Minimum Wage Bill Demand Careful Scrutiny
Iris J. Lav
10/1/99
12K, 4pp
99-117, $3.00

Analysis of 1998 Census Income and Poverty Data
Robert Greenstein and Wendell Primus
9/30/99
20K, 35K-PDF, 5pp
99-116, $3.00

The House Leadership's Proposal to Delay EITC Payments
Robert Greenstein
9/29/99
11K, 3pp
99-115, $3.00

Allocation Of The $3 Billion TANF Rescission Among States Would Treat Some States Inequitably
Ed Lazere
9/27/99
43K, 10pp
99-112, $3.00

Work to Be Done: Designing Publicly-Funded Jobs To Meet Community Needs
Clifford M. Johnson and Alex Goldenberg
9/24/99
59K, 19pp
99-111, $5.00

How Health Care Providers Can Help Link Children to Free and Low Cost Health Insurance Programs
Donna Cohen Ross
Revised 9/20/99
29K

Competitive Welfare-to-Work Grantees Utilize Publicly-Funded Transitional Jobs to Aid Hard-to-Employ Welfare Recipients
Clifford M. Johnson and Lana Kim
9/17/99
14K, 5pp
99-110, $3.00

Washington State's Community Jobs Initiative
Clifford M. Johnson and Lana Kim
9/7/99
25K, 8pp
99-109, $3.00

Should TANF Block Grant Funds Be Rescinded?
Ed Lazere and Robert Greenstein
9/23/99
13K, 4pp
99-114, $3.00

Family Self-Sufficiency Program
Barbara Sard and Jeff Lubell
Rev. 4/19/00
18K, 6pp
99-054, $3.00

A Small Non-Social Security Deficit In Fiscal Year 2000 Would Not Adversely Affect Social Security
Robert Greenstein and James Horney
9/17/99
9K, 2pp
99-106, $3.00

Statement of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities To the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce
Michael Mazerov
9/14/99
27K, 11pp
99-122, $4.00

The Widening Income Gulf
Isaac Shapiro and Robert Greenstein
9/4/99
36K-pr, 158K-report, 16pp
99-104, $5.00

The House VA-HUD Appropriations Bill Would Reduce Rather Than Increase Funds For HUD Programs
Jeff Lubell
8/23/99
16K, 4pp
99-100, $3.00

The Initial Impacts of Welfare Reform on the Economic Well-Being of Single Mother Families
Wendell Primus, Lynette Rawlings, Kathy Larin, Kathryn Porter
8/22/99
10K-pr, 284K-PDF, 91pp
99-101, $10.00

Tax Bill Contains Only Modest Benefits For Middle Class Despite Its High Cost
Iris J. Lav and Robert Greenstein
8/20/99
63K, 17pp
99-103, $5.00

Publicly-Funded Jobs for Hard-to-Employ Welfare Recipients
Cliff Johnson
Rev. 8/18/99
22K

The Use of TANF Funds to Provide Housing and Homelessness Assistance: Implications of the Final TANF Rules
Jeff Lubell
8/13/99
17K, 5pp
99-099, $3.00

Congressional Action Points to a Non-Social Security Deficit of More than $20 Billion in Fiscal Year 2000: Actions Undercut Credibility of Promise to Finance the Tax Bill with Large Reductions in Appropriated Programs
James Horney and Robert Greenstein
8/12/99
38K, 10pp
99-098, $3.00

Conference Agreement Tax Cut Would Cost $2.6 Trillion in Second 10 Years
Iris J. Lav and Robert Greenstein
8/6/99
14K, 4pp
99-097, $3.00

Beyond The Rhetoric: What The Clinton Budget And The Republican Budget Plan Really Propose For Appropriated: Is the Administration Proposing Substantial New Spending?
James Horney and Robert Greenstein
8/5/99
13K, 4pp
99-096, $3.00

VA-HUD Appropriations Bill Would Cut Low-Income Housing And Other Programs To Help Pave The Way For An Unaffordable Tax Cut
Jeff Lubell
8/3/99
14K, 5pp
99-094, $3.00

Creative Arithmetic to Justify $800 Billion Tax Cut Does Not Withstand Scrutiny
Robert Greenstein
7/29/99
15K, 4pp
99-093, $3.00

Analyses by Treasury, The Joint Tax Committee, And Citizens For Tax Justice All Show House Tax Bill Heavily Tilted Toward Wealthy
Isaac Shapiro, Robert Greenstein and Iris J. Lav
Rev. 7/29/99
30K, 9pp
99-084, $3.00

Is The Senate Finance Committee Tax Bill A Middle-Class Tax Cut?
Iris J. Lav and Robert Greenstein
7/29/99
42K, 12pp
99-083, $3.00

Is The Roth Proposal A Middle-Class Tax Cut?
Iris J. Lav and Robert Greenstein
Revised 7/28/99
35K

Is an $800 Billion Tax Cut Fiscally Responsible?
Robert Greenstein and Jim Horney
7/22/99
16K, 5pp
99-087, $3.00

Joint Tax Committee Distribution Tables Fail to Include Most of the Upper-Income Tax Cuts in the Roth Package: Figures in the Tables Have Little Meaning As a Result
Robert Greenstein and Iris J. Lav
7/21/99
12K

Eliminating The Estate Tax: A Costly Benefit For The Wealthiest Americans
Iris J. Lav
Rev. 7/20/99
15K, 5pp
99-081, $3.00

Ways and Means Tax Cut Would Cost $2.8 Trillion in Second 10 Years
Iris J. Lav
Rev. 7/20/99
4K

Roth Tax Cut Would Cost Over $2 Trillion in Second 10 Years
Iris J. Lav
7/19/99
5K, 2pp
99-085, $3.00

Welfare Balances In The States: Unspent TANF Funds in the Middle of Federal Fiscal Year 1999
Ed Lazere and Lana Kim
7/19/99
142K, 19pp
99-086, $5.00

Is the Roth Proposal a Middle-Class Tax Cut?
Iris J. Lav and Robert Greenstein
7/15/99
20K

Much of the Projected Non-Social Security Surplus Is a Mirage: Vast Majority of Surplus Rests on Assumptions of Deep Cuts in Discretionary Programs that Are Unlikely to Occur
Sam Elkin and Robert Greenstein
Rev. 7/12/99
23K, 7pp
99-076, $3.00

Health Insurance Tax Deductions Cannot Help Most Uninsured
Iris J. Lav and Cindy Mann
7/12/99
22K

Concerns Regarding the Nussle-Cardin-Goss Budget Process Bill
Sam Elkin and Robert Greenstein
7/2/99
41K, 8pp
99-013, $3.00

Coverdell-Torricelli Proposal To Boost 15% Tax Bracket Would Primarily Benefit Higher-Income Families, Not The Middle Class
Iris J. Lav
7/1/99
18K, 4pp
99-070, $4.00

Taxing the Profits of Multistate Corporations In Wisconsin: Adopting a "Single Sales Factor" Formula Without Requiring Combined Reporting Will Reduce State Revenues With No Guarantee of More In-State Jobs
Michael Mazerov
6/30/99
62K, 16pp
99-075, $4.00

Feinstein-Grassley Marriage Penalty Relief Leaves out Working Poor and Near Poor Families
Iris J. Lav
6/29/99
64K, 6pp
99-072, $3.00

Creating Jobs: Public and Private Strategies for the Hard-to-Employ
Cliff Johnson, William Schweke, Matt Hull
6/28/99
502K

The Determinants Of Welfare Caseload Decline: A Brief Rejoinder
Liz Schott, Robert Greenstein, Wendell Primus
6/22/99
26K, 8pp
99-074, $3.00

Bill To Raise Income Ceiling On 15 Percent Tax Bracket Would Primarily Benefit Higher-Income Families, Not The Middle Class
Iris J. Lav
6/21/99
18K

Last Minute "Technical" Change Turns Herger-Shaw Lock-Box Bill into Measure That Increases the Risk of Recession: House Members Vote for Bill with No Information About the Last-Minute Change
Robert Greenstein
6/11/99
39K, 11pp
99-065, $4.00

Alleviating Marriage Penalties in the EITC
Iris J. Lav
6/10/99
6K , 2pp
99-063, $3.00

Extending Marriage-Penalty Relief to Families to Working Poor and Near Poor Families
Iris J. Lav
6/10/99
32K, 9pp
99-062, $3.00

States Must Act Immediately to Retain Time-Limit Flexibility Under their Waivers
Liz Schott
5/27/99
28K, 9pp
99-059, $3.00

Issues Related to the Herger-Shaw Social Security "Lock-Box" Legislation
Robert Greenstein
5/24/99
14K, 4pp
99-058, $3.00

Analysis of Nussle-Cardin-Goss Budget Process Bill
Sam Elkin and Robert Greenstein
Rev. 5/14/99
38K

Taxes on Middle-Income Families Are Declining
Iris J. Lav
Revised 5/10/99
66K

Tax Foundation Figures Produce Misleading and Inaccurate Impressions of Middle Class Tax Burdens
Iris J. Lav, Isaac Shapiro, Robert Greenstein
Revised 5/10/99
48K

Archer-Shaw Social Security Proposal
Robert Greenstein
Revised 5/5/99
17K, 7pp
99-039, $3.00

Testimony of Kilolo Kijakazi on Social Security's Treatment of People of Color and Women
Kilolo Kijakazi
5/4/99
42K-HTML, 49K-PDF, 12pp.


Misconceptions in the D.C. Tax Debate
Iris J. Lav
5/4/99
6K

From Rags to Riches to Rags?
Iris J. Lav
5/3/99
128K, 11pp
99-043, $4.00

Highlights of the Final TANF Regulations
Liz Schott, Ed Lazere, Heidi Goldberg, and Eileen Sweeney
4/29/99
78K, 24pp
99-041, $5.00

CBO Analysis, Other Studies Raise Serious Doubts About Costly Military Pay and Pensions Bill
4/29/99
30K , 9pp
99-040. $3.00

Potential Funding Sources for Public Job Creation Initiatives
Cliff Johnson
4/23/99
17K, 5pp
99-053, $3.00

Provisions of Final TANF Regulations Pertaining to Wage Subsidies and Publicly-Funded Jobs
Cliff Johnson
4/21/99
11K, 4pp
99-056, $3.00

The Abraham-Domenici Lock-Box Legislation
Robert Greenstein
4/21/99
39K, 12pp
99-045, $4.00

The Abraham-Domenici Lock-Box Legislation
Robert Greenstein
4/21/99
12K, 4pp
99-045S, $4.00

Shattering Indiana's Piggy Bank: Both the House and Senate Budget and Tax Plans for the FY00-FY01 Biennium Will Eventually Deplete the State's Accumulated Surplus
Michael Mazerov
4/20/99
137K-PDF, 38pp
99-037, $6.00

Tax Foundation Figures Produce Misleading and Inaccurate Impressions of Middle Class Tax Burdens
Iris J. Lav, Isaac Shapiro, Robert Greenstein
4/15/99
48K, 7pp
99-036, $3.00

Taxes on Middle-Income Families Are Declining
Iris J. Lav
4/14/99
66K, 8pp
99-035, $3.00

Reducing Alabama's Income Tax on Working Poor Families: Two Options
Nicholas Johnson
4/14/99
60K, 12pp
99-034, $4.00

A State Strategy for Increasing Child Support Payments from Low-Income Fathers and Improving the Well-Being of Their Children Through Economic Incentives
Wendell E. Primus and Charita L. Castro
4/14/99
58K, 20pp
99-044, $5.00

Social Security and Poverty Among the Elderly: A National and State Perspective
Kathryn H. Porter, Kathy Larin and Wendell Primus
4/8/99
24K-Press Release, 168K-Summary, 12pp
99-031, $3.00
194K-PDF, 80pp
99-030, $9.00

Poverty Despite Work in Kentucky
Christina Smith FitzPatrick
4/7/99
9K-Press Release, 442K-PDF, 36pp
99-029, $5.00

Governor Sundquist's Revised Tax Proposal Would Address Long-Standing Problems with Tennessee's Tax System
Elizabeth McNichol
4/1/99
81K, 12pp
99-028, $5.00

Ins and Outs of Delinking: Promoting Medicaid Enrollment of Children Who are Moving In and Out of the TANF System
Cindy Mann
3/99
105K-PDF, 25pp
99-049, $5.00

Community-Based Organization: Paving the Way to Children's Health Insurance Coverage
Donna Cohen Ross
3/99
141K-PDF, 40pp
99-050, $7.00

Food Stamps Can Help Low-Income Working Families Put Food On The Table
Sharon Parrott and Stacy Dean
3/31/99
28K, 6pp
99-027, $3.00

Understanding the Financial Status of the Social Security System in Light of the 1999 Trustees' Report
Kilolo Kijakazi, Wendell Primus, Robert Greenstein
3/30/99
13K, 3pp
99-026, $3.00

Wendell Primus' Testimony on Social Security
Wendell Primus
3/25/99
40K

Public Job Creation: Selected References
Cliff Johnson
3/24/99
20K, 5pp
99-052, $3.00

Without Reductions in Discretionary Programs, There Would Be Little Budget Surplus Outside Social Security: In Effect, Tax Cut Proposals are Financed by Cutting Discretionary Programs
Sam Elkin
3/23/99
82K, 4pp
99-025, $3.00

A Quick Guide To Calculating Food Stamp Benefits For Families With Children
3/23/99
22K, 4pp
99-060, $3.00

A Missouri Earned Income Tax Credit Would Build on the Strengths of the Federal Credit
Nicholas Johnson
3/22/99
88K, 3pp
99-024, $3.00

Public Job Creation: Current State and City Initiatives
Cliff Johnson
3/19/99
18K, 5pp
99-051, $3.00

The Republican Budget Proposals
Robert Greenstein
3/19/99
49K, 15pp
99-022, $4.00

The Lock-Box Proposal and the Economy
Robert Greenstein
3/18/99
26K, 8pp
99-023, $3.00

Republican Tax Plan Risks New On-Budget Deficits After 2009
Iris J. Lav and Sam Elkin
3/17/99
7K, 2pp
99-021, $3.00

Administrative Costs in Individual Accounts in the United Kingdom
Peter Orszag
3/16/99
11K-pr, 10K-sum, 92K-PDF , 14pp
99-020, $4.00

When It Rains It Pours: A Look at the Adequacy of State Rainy Day Funds and Budget Reserves
Iris J. Lav and Alan Berube
3/11/99
21K, 211K-PDF, 54
99-011, $5.00

The TANF Block Grant Should Not Be Cut
Kathy Larin
3/11/99
12K, 4pp
99-017, $3.00

The State Tobacco Settlements: What Should be Done with the Federal Share of Medicaid-Related Tobacco Payments? Reserves
Cindy Mann, Andy Schneider, and Sara Thom
3/10/99
48K, 14pp
99-012, $4.00

Individual Accounts and Social Security: Does Social Security Really Provide a Lower Rate of Return?
Peter Orszag
3/9/99
21K, 135K-PDF , 38pp
99-016, $6.00

Wendell Primus' Testimony on Tax Cuts
Wendell Primus
3-4-99
22K

State Income Tax Burdens on Low-Income Families in 1998: Assessing the Burden and Opportunities for Relief
Nicholas Johnson, Christina Smith Fitzpatrick and Liz McNichol
3/4/99
390K-PDF, 64pp
99-009, $7.00

Social Security Testimony of Wendell Primus
Wendell Primus
3/1/99
39K

Unspent TANF Funds at the End of Federal Fiscal Year 1998
Edward Lazere
Rev. 3/19/99
39K-PDF

Should a Portion of Social Security Benefits Be Invested in Equities?
Robert Greenstein
2/23/99
72K-PDF, 15pp
99-008, $4.00

Federal Debt: What Matters and Why
Peter Orszag and Robert Greenstein
2/22/99
44K -PDF, 8pp
99-007, $3.00

Military Pensions and Pay Bill Would Be Very Costly
Robert Greenstein
2/19/99
33K -PDF, 6pp
99-006, $3.00

Testimony of Kilolo Kijakazi on Social Security's Protections For African Americans
Kilolo Kijakazi
2/10/99
26K-HTML, 34K-PDF, 8pp.


Social Security Testimony of Robert Greenstein
Robert Greenstein
2/9/99
21K

Employed But Not Insured: A State-by-State Analysis of the Number of Low-Income Working Parents Who Lack Health Insurance
Jocelyn Guyer and Cindy Mann
2/9/99
Four Sections, 215K PDF , 37pp
99-004, $5.00

Analysis of Clinton Administration FY 2000 Budget Proposal: How Big Is the Federal Government and Would the Administration's Budget Make it Bigger?
Robert Greenstein and Sam Elkin
2/2/99
204K, 14pp
99-003, $4.00

Information and Misinformation About Federal Tax Burdens
Iris J. Lav
1/21/99
54K, 5pp
99-002, $3.00

Proposed 10% Tax Rate Cut Would Provide Little Relief to Millions of Families
Robert Greenstein and Iris J. Lav
1/21/99
6K

How the Statutory Changes Made by the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 May Affect Welfare Reform Efforts
Barbara Sard and Jeff Lubell
12/17/98
80K

The Feldstein Social Security Plan
Robert Greenstein, Wendell Primus, and Kilolo Kijakazi
12/16/98
70K

Social Security Plans That Reduce Social Security Retirement Benefits Substantially Are Likely to Cut Disability and Survivors Benefits As Well
Kathy Larin and Robert Greenstein
12/15/98
77K

Welfare-to-Work Housing Vouchers: An Innovative Approach to Welfare Reform
Jeff Lubell and Barbara Sard
2/2/99
23K