This week at CBPP, we focused on health, housing, the economy, food assistance, and state budgets and taxes.
On health, Hannah Katch noted that Medicaid can partner with housing providers and others to address enrollees’ social...off the charts
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BEYOND THE NUMBERS
BEYOND THE NUMBERS
January 17, 2020
January 16, 2020
While Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is best known for his inspirational leadership in bringing down legal barriers to civil rights for Black Americans and other people of color, he also emphasized the need to reduce poverty and expand opportunity to achieve true racial justice. This MLK Day, we would do well to remember that state tax codes are a critical lever for policymakers not only to...
January 15, 2020
Tennessee’s proposal to radically change TennCare, the state’s Medicaid program, including by converting its federal financing to an unprecedented block grant, would...
January 10, 2020
This week at CBPP, we focused on housing, food assistance, health, Social Security, and the economy.
On housing, Peggy Bailey stated that a rule from the Trump Administration would reverse communities’ progress toward meeting fair...January 10, 2020
The Trump Administration and 18 state attorneys general are asking the courts to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) as unconstitutional. With a cloud of uncertainty...
January 9, 2020
Six states — Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, and Virginia — have reversed or suspended their plans to take Medicaid coverage away from people who don’t meet work requirements. Other states with similar approved or pending waivers from the federal government also should reconsider these harmful policies.
The six states reconsidering their work requirement policies cited...
January 9, 2020
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains likely to reduce federal budget deficits substantially in coming years, despite December’s repeal of three ACA taxes. Repealing the excise tax on high-cost health plans (the “Cadillac tax”), the fee on health insurance providers (the “health insurance tax”), and the medical device excise tax will sacrifice hundreds of billions in revenues and marks a...
January 8, 2020
Applications and benefit awards for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) fell again in 2019, new data show, adding to the significant declines since 2010 (see graph). Total SSDI enrollment also has...
December 20, 2019
This week at CBPP, we announced that CBPP’s founder and President, Robert Greenstein, will step down at the end of 2020. Bob stated, in part:
I am very proud of what we have accomplished over the last four decades, especially in substantially strengthening programs and
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