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CBPP’s main focus this week was the proposed COVID-19 relief under the budget resolution. We released several analyses of its key components, including an overview excerpting these pieces:

On federal taxes, Chuck Marr, Kris Cox, Stephanie Hingtgen, Katie Windham, and Arloc Sherman examined the package’s critical expansions of the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit.
On health, Tara Straw, Sarah Lueck, Hannah Katch, Judith Solomon, Matt Broaddus, and Gideon Lukens detailed how the health provisions of the package would improve access to health coverage, and Lueck authored a summary of the paper.
On state budgets and taxes, Michael Leachman noted that the proposal provides critical fiscal relief for states, localities, tribal nations, and territories. Nicholas Johnson and Victoria Jackson analyzed the proposed, and much-needed, K-12 education funding.
On housing, Douglas Rice and Ann Oliva outlined how a housing assistance provision would prevent millions of evictions and help people experiencing homelessness.
On the economy, Chad Stone discussed the package’s important Unemployment Insurance extensions.
On food assistance, Dottie Rosenbaum, Zoë Neuberger, Brynne Keith-Jennings, and Catlin Nchako detailed how its nutrition provisions would reduce high levels of hunger and hardship and Joseph Llobrera authored a related blog post.
On family income support, LaDonna Pavetti demonstrated how the plan’s emergency fund for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program would help families with the lowest incomes.

We also released pieces touching on other areas of state budgets and taxes, immigration, health, poverty and inequality, the economy, and Social Security.