As children across the country begin a new school year, their schools’ facilities and equipment aren’t as modern as they should be, due to sharp cuts in state funding for school capital projects over the past decade. As a share of the economy, state capital funding for schools — for example, to build new schools, renovate and expand facilities, and install more modern technologies — was still...

The Trump Administration has launched numerous efforts – often wrapped in inflammatory, racist rhetoric — to marginalize immigrants, including community raids and deportations, the separation of children from families at the border, and rules around who may come to and stay in this country that hearken back to white supremacist ideas of who belongs here. But as our...

State and federal policymakers need to do more to strengthen TANF and help these parents and their children afford the basics.

This week at CBPP, we focused on immigration, family income support, food assistance, Social Security, the federal budget, and the economy.

On immigration, Robert Greenstein released a statement saying the Trump