Safe, stable, and affordable housing remains out of reach for millions of people with disabilities and their families, which can undermine their access to health care and force some to live in...

Safe, stable, and affordable housing remains out of reach for millions in the U.S., which can undermine their mental well-being and access to behavioral health care. People with behavioral health...

Safe, stable, and affordable housing remains out of reach for millions in the U.S., which can undermine their health and safety. The first and most effective step in addressing the nation’s...

Today the Census Bureau released data that highlight the successes of the government’s extraordinary if imperfect steps to bolster households’ incomes in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout.

The information reporting proposal is specifically designed to impose no burdens on taxpayers, to protect privacy, and to shield people with low or moderate incomes from higher audit rates.

The package would raise substantial revenue in three major ways: from high-income and wealthy individuals, from profitable corporations, and from better enforcement of the nation’s tax laws.

The Census Bureau will release 2020 poverty, income, and health insurance figures on September 14.

Budget reconciliation legislation set to be considered in the House Energy and Commerce Committee would permanently close the Medicaid coverage gap and finally, over seven years after the Medicaid expansion was supposed to take effect, get people the health care they need.

House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal released a bill yesterday to extend the American Rescue Plan’s increase in the Child Tax Credit amount and its provision as a monthly payment...

The case made against the Biden corporate tax proposals has serious flaws.

Economic recovery legislation released Wednesday by the House Education and Labor Committee includes historic investments of nearly $35 billion over the coming years in proven child nutrition...

While the Administration’s proposal included some $300 billion for housing, nearly all of it would subsidize construction and renovation, with less than 1 percent going toward the rental assistance needed to help millions of people afford housing.

Prior to enactment of the American Rescue Plan in March, 27 million children received less than the full Child Tax Credit or no credit at all because their families’ incomes were too low.

At a point in time, there are about 2.2 million uninsured adults with incomes below the poverty line who lack a pathway to affordable health coverage because their states have refused to adopt the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. But this group isn’t fixed, and over the course of the year — and over several years — the coverage gap affects a much larger number of people.

The annual reports of the Social Security and Medicare trustees, released today, indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic and recession will only modestly worsen the programs’ financial condition.

The debate so far has been overly focused on a single number.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced August 16 that it has updated the Thrifty Food Plan (TFP), which is used to set the amount of food assistance people participating in the...

To provide a fuller picture of the public income support system for low-income families, this analysis blends the SPM with corrections for underreporting of key government benefits in survey data.

The budget resolution takes an important first step toward enacting groundbreaking legislation with long overdue investments to address problems that have plagued the United States for generations.

Much of the recent inflation spike reflects temporary factors that, going forward, aren’t likely to significantly affect the more moderate underlying inflation trend.

Vouchers deliver major benefits to some 680,000 seniors nationwide — more than any other rental assistance program.

Congress is crafting recovery legislation that has the potential to significantly reduce poverty, broaden opportunity, and increase racial equity in the United States. The investments under consideration would make a substantial difference in the lives of children and youth, a large body of research shows

Over the last 25 years, the national TANF average monthly caseload has fallen dramatically even as poverty and deep poverty remained widespread.

Government officials and agencies, community-based organizations, and advocates across the country can help reduce poverty and hardship by conducting aggressive outreach and giving hands-on assistance to help the lowest-income, and likely hardest-to-reach, families access the Child Tax Credit.

TANF falls far short of what it should be. It reaches few families in need and provides inadequate cash aid and other assistance to help families resolve crises and improve their well-being.

Economic security programs can help families meet basic needs and improve their lives, but design features influenced by anti-Black racism and sexism have created an inadequate system of support that particularly harms Black families and other families of color.

Just 23 of every 100 families with incomes below the federal poverty line receive TANF benefits, down from 68 families upon the program’s creation 25 years ago.

Residents of the territories are U.S. citizens or, in the case of American Samoa, U.S. nationals; yet federal law treats them far less favorably than residents of the states when it comes to their Medicaid coverage — even though they are more likely than residents of the states to rely on Medicaid for their health care.

States can expand opportunity and build stronger, more prosperous, and inclusive communities by reducing the incarceration of children and young adults and increasing the use of sensible alternatives that advance equitable outcomes.