Under the ACA, older adults’ uninsured rate has dropped by a third, indicators of their health and wellness have improved, and they’re now protected from coverage exclusions and cost increases due to pre-existing conditions.

One of policymakers’ top priorities in recovery legislation should be to provide housing vouchers to a larger share of families in need.

Income and wealth have become increasingly concentrated in recent decades as the fortunes of those at the very top have surged.

SNAP is essential to helping low-income households put food on the table.

The federal-state unemployment insurance (UI) system helps many people who have lost their jobs by temporarily replacing part of their wages. (See “Policy Basics: Unemployment Insurance.”) Under...

The American Rescue Plan is not only an extraordinary federal policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its severe attendant hardships, but also a historic opportunity to begin undoing...

When President Trump took office in January 2017, he inherited an economy in its 91st month of economic expansion following the end of the Great Recession in June 2009. That expansion continued into 2020, becoming the longest on record, but a sharp contraction in economic activity arising from COVID-19 ended it.

Millions report that their households did not get enough to eat or are not caught up on rent payments.

The proposals constitute a ground-breaking agenda to move us toward an equitable economy and address problems that have plagued our nation for decades.

The American Rescue Plan Act includes $12 billion in key investments to food assistance programs to mitigate the nation’s extraordinarily high levels of hunger and hardship.

Closing this Medicaid “coverage gap” would be among the most important steps that policymakers can take to reduce racial health disparities.

The underfunded UI system poorly serves unemployed workers, particularly low-paid workers, women, and workers of color.

Various laws, regulations, and guidance that federal policymakers put in place since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic expand access to testing, vaccination, and treatment for the virus.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) cut the nation’s uninsured rate nearly in half from 16 percent to 9 percent, but 29 million people remain uninsured, including about 18 million who are already...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides benefits broadly to low-income households that meet the program’s eligibility requirements, but its coverage of non-elderly adults not...

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States have critical policy choices to make: they can exacerbate inequities and damage the economy, or they can set another course.

The number of households having difficulty putting food on the table grew sharply over the past year due to COVID-19’s far-reaching health and economic impacts and remains high relative to pre-pandemic levels.

Table of Contents Overview Why Is It Worthwhile to Enroll More Medicaid and SNAP Participants in WIC? How Medicaid Participants Can Benefit From Participating in WIC How SNAP...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, federal policymakers created a temporary paid family and medical leave program in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which passed with strong...

Rural communities — both nationally and in most states — will benefit disproportionately from the American Rescue Plan’s temporary expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit.

To fund the investments that would help build a more equitable recovery, President Biden is expected to ask the wealthiest households to pay a fairer amount in federal taxes. With the nation’s...

Beyond the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Administration should make additional, permanent changes to make it easier for more people to enroll in coverage through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces.

The Act extends the Child Tax Credit to families of all sizes in Puerto Rico and provides funding to substantially expand Puerto Rico’s local Earned Income Tax Credit.

Vouchers help more than 2 million low-income households afford decent, stable housing, usually by helping them rent a modest unit of their choice in the private market.

A decade of budget cuts has severely undermined the agency’s ability to perform its fundamental jobs of enforcing the nation’s tax laws.