As Labor Day approaches, my CBPP colleagues Jared Bernstein and Ben Spielberg detail in the Washington Post how — notwithstanding his pro-worker rhetoric — President Trump is pursuing an agenda that at nearly every turn would undercut...
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Previewing the House GOP Budget Plan
Updated 7:45pm EST.
The House Budget Committee is moving forward with a 2018 budget plan that will set a fiscal framework for budget, tax, and appropriations bills to follow and for years to come. The budget resolution may well lay out a harsh long-term vision that will mean a further weakening of health care; far less help to families struggling to afford the...
Trump Proposes Immediate, Severe Cuts to Low- and Moderate-Income Programs — They Then Get Far Worse
The deep cuts that President Trump’s budget proposes to low- and moderate-income programs — the deepest such cuts that any modern President has ever proposed — not only would have severe consequences for health care, housing, job training, and other programs in their...
The Myth of the Exploding Safety Net
Total spending for mandatory federal low-income programs outside health care is only modestly above its average over the past 40 years.
Trump Plans Big Federal Workforce Cuts, But Workforce Already at Record Lows, Undermining Basic Services
President Trump plans to propose large cuts in the number of federal employees, news reports suggest, even though...
Even Before Trump Cut, U.S. Lags Comparable Countries In Providing Development Aid
President Trump’s plan to cut foreign aid and development assistance deeply to help pay for higher defense spending is unwarranted: the relatively modest U.S. spending on Official Development Assistance (ODA) — which comprises most U.S. foreign aid — already lags...
State Data on Safety Net’s Impact, in One Place
We’ve posted a spreadsheet, courtesy of our Excel whiz Rebecca Portman, with all the data that we used in our new state fact sheets on the safety net’s impact. It contains information for every...
The Safety Net’s Impact: A State-by-State Look
Our new state-by-state fact sheets on the safety net’s impact show that, in every state, programs assisting low-income Americans lift large numbers of people above the poverty line and provide health coverage to a large share of children. The fact sheets illustrate that:
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House Bill Would Undercut FCC Effort to Promote Upward Mobility
Just two weeks after House Republicans released their poverty plan with the principle that all “should have the chance to make the most of our lives” and “break free” from poverty, they’ve proposed legislation that would do the opposite. Among other impacts, the bill, scheduled...
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