

This week at CBPP, we focused on the federal budget, housing, income security, food assistance, and health.
The House Republican debt-ceiling-and-cuts bill would, among other things, impose severe cuts on discretionary funding amounting to $3.6 trillion over the next ten years. If defense and veterans’ health care are protected from cuts, as...
This week at CBPP, we focused on the federal budget, federal taxes, and food assistance.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps more than 40 million people put food on the table each month. SNAP has existing, harmful work-reporting requirements, but recent proposals from House Republicans would harm more...
This week at CBPP, we focused on state budgets and taxes, the federal budget, income security, and health.
The House Republican debt-ceiling-and-cuts bill would put more families at risk of involvement with the child welfare system by jeopardizing cash assistance for 540,000 families with very low incomes, which include nearly 1 million children...
Rather than reduce fraud, these provisions will complicate and deter ongoing efforts to prevent criminals from defrauding the unemployment insurance system.
House Republicans’ debt-ceiling-and-cuts bill would decimate funding that states, localities, tribal nations, and U.S. Territories rely on to provide vital services like schools, transit, and aid to families in crisis. The bill would impose up...
The Minnesota House and Senate passed two tax bills containing a critical provision aimed at stopping multinational corporations (MNCs) from shifting profits earned in the state onto the books of subsidiaries in foreign tax havens...