Policymakers should pass a continuing resolution that addresses key urgent needs, like WIC.

Letting 9 million children in this country live in poverty is a policy choice.

Long-term property-specific rental assistance can reduce the cost of private market financing, encourage developers to include units affordable to the lowest-income households in their properties, and provide stable affordable homes to the people most in need.

A fiscal commission is likely to focus narrowly on reducing deficits, ignoring other important policy challenges.

Most families and individuals who meet the program’s income guidelines are eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly the Food Stamp Program).

In fiscal year 2023, the federal government is estimated to spend $6.3 trillion, amounting to 24.2 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP). Of that $6.3 trillion, over $4.8 trillion is...

North Carolina recently became the 41st state (including the District of Columbia) to expand Medicaid to adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, enacting the move in its 2023-2024 fiscal budget. This leaves just ten non-expansion states that continue to deny lifesaving Medicaid health coverage — and the financial protections that come with it — to hundreds of thousands of people with low incomes.

States that run their own state-based health insurance marketplaces (SBMs) are uniquely positioned to help people no longer eligible for Medicaid transition to a marketplace plan and receive...

Raising or eliminating asset limits would reduce administrative burdens without dramatically increasing enrollment.

The proposed budget would narrow opportunity, worsen racial inequities, and make it harder for people to afford the basics.

Major targets in past Republican budgets included Medicaid and the financial help people receive to purchase health coverage in the Affordable Care Act marketplace, as well as other forms of assistance that reduce poverty and hardship and expand opportunity.

Today’s stunning rise in poverty is the direct result of policy choices — including Congress’s decision to allow the successful Child Tax Credit expansion to expire.

If any programs are protected from cuts, the unprotected programs would be hit much harder. Drag programs back and forth to see how big the resulting cuts would be to unprotected programs.

Poverty may have risen by historic amounts, driven by the expiration of pandemic relief including, notably, the expanded Child Tax Credit. A smaller share of people than ever may have lacked health insurance in 2022 — but figures will not reflect the coverage loss underway in 2023 due to the expiration of pandemic-era Medicaid coverage safeguards.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid help tens of millions of people with low incomes put food on the table and obtain needed medical services. But the traditional...

Public programs transformed what, without the programs, would have been a near-record surge in poverty in the COVID-19 recession into a record one-year overall poverty decline in 2020 and a record one-year decline in children's poverty in 2021.

Policymakers should preserve the program’s vital role for workers and their families and reject proposals that would weaken SNAP benefits as participants cope with the realities of the low-wage labor market.