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Budget Deal Averts Troubling Threats, Allows More Adequate Funding for Key Priorities

July 22, 2019

The deal eliminates the threats both of an unprecedented U.S. government default on its debt obligations and of deep, damaging budget cuts that would have been triggered under the Budget Control Act.

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Medicaid Enrollment Decline Among Adults and Children Too Large to Be Explained by Falling Unemployment

July 17, 2019

Matt Broaddus

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Why Congress Shouldn’t Repeal the Cadillac Tax

July 11, 2019

Paul N. Van de Water

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Budget Deal Averts Troubling Threats, Allows More Adequate Funding for Key Priorities

Medicaid Enrollment Decline Among Adults and Children Too Large to Be Explained by Falling Unemployment

Why Congress Shouldn’t Repeal the Cadillac Tax

Maine Stories Show Harm From SNAP’s Three-Month Limit

Research on Understudied Area: TANF Restrictions’ Harm to Adolescents

House Bill Would Enable U.S. Territories to Maintain, Improve Medicaid

NH Medicaid Work Requirement Suspension Confirms: Policy Can’t Be Fixed

Trump’s Health Care Plan Would Do Much the Same Damage as His Effort to Repeal the ACA Through the Courts

House Ways and Means Committee Legislation Would Expand EITC and Child Tax Credit

Demographic Data Highlight Potential Harm of New Trump Proposal to Restrict Housing Assistance

“Block Grant” Guidance Will Likely Invite Medicaid Waivers That Pose Serious Risks to Beneficiaries, Providers, and States

House Hearing Today to Highlight Successes of SNAP “Categorical Eligibility”

Medicaid Funding Cliff Approaching for U.S. Territories

States Should Target Senior Tax Breaks Only to Those Who Need Them, Free up Funds for Investments

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