Medicaid HCBS supports seniors and people with disabilities who need help with activities of daily living such as getting dressed and bathing, preparing and eating meals, and taking medications.

The economic recovery legislation now being developed in Congress (also known as “Build Back Better”) would fund as many as 750,000 new Housing Choice Vouchers to help people with low incomes...

The economic recovery legislation now being developed in Congress would fund as many as 750,000 new Housing Choice Vouchers to help people with low incomes afford stable housing.

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Recent suggestions that Congress should deny the credit to children whose parents don’t have earnings are misguided.

As Congress considers economic recovery legislation, it should seize the opportunity to update and simplify Supplemental Security Income.

Protecting the full faith and credit of the U.S. government by suspending or raising the debt limit should not be a partisan issue.

Criminal fees fall heavily on the lowest-income people in the country and disproportionately on Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people, who already face severe barriers imposed by systemic racism, discrimination, and bias.

In addition to creating a permanent pathway to coverage for more than 2 million people in the Medicaid coverage gap, economic recovery legislation being considered by the House would strengthen Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage for parents and children, people returning to their communities from jails and prisons, and people with disabilities and older Americans who need home- and community-based services.

The “Build Back Better” legislation approved by House committees includes groundbreaking investments to address problems that have plagued our nation for generations.

Safe, stable, and affordable housing remains out of reach for millions in the U.S. That is particularly true for people whose incarceration and conviction histories subject them to justice and...

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.

For information on child nutrition provisions in the Build Back Better legislation before the House in November 2021, please see: "Nutrition Provisions in New House Build Back Better Legislation...

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...