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This week at CBPP, we focused on food assistance, health, state budgets and taxes, the federal budget, and the economy.

On food assistance, Dottie Rosenbaum emphasized that the House Republicans’ Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program amendments to the Agriculture appropriations bill would take food away from more than 1 million low-income people. Javier Balmaceda outlined why Puerto Rico and other territories should get food assistance equity in the upcoming farm bill.
On health, Breanna Sharer explained that with North Carolina adopting Medicaid expansion, a dwindling number of states are missing out on its economic and health benefits. Gideon Lukens underscored that the House bills expanding health savings accounts would boost high-income tax breaks and not affordability of care.
On state budgets and taxes, Eric Figueroa pointed to Alabama and Utah joining a growing number of states moving to reduce or eliminate sales taxes on groceries.
On the federal budget, we updated our backgrounder on where federal tax dollars go.
On the economy, we updated our backgrounder on how many weeks of unemployment compensation are available per state.

A variety of news outlets featured CBPP’s work and experts this past week. Here are some of our highlights:

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