The new Congressional Budget Office budget projections show deficits of $1.9 trillion over the next ten years, fiscal years 2005 – 2014. As CBO has acknowledged, however, the baseline...

A new Center report, The President’s Proposal to Make Tax Cuts Permanent, examines the proposal in the President’s State of the Union address to make permanent a...

This paper is part of an on-going project at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities to encourage improved coordination amongst the major state-administered low-income benefit programs.  The...

Summary States have been in the midst of the most severe state budget crisis in recent memory. This past year, state legislatures adopted changes to close state budget gaps totaling $78 billion...

SummaryA weak economy, new tax breaks, and aggressive tax sheltering have pushed corporate income tax receipts down to historically low levels, both relative to the size of the economy and as a...

A new Center report, The Decline of Corporate Income Tax Revenues, provides context for the debate over corporate tax-cut legislation now before Congress.It shows that corporate...

Issued Jointly With A Fiscal Crisis A fiscal crisis is developing in the United States, and the risks of inaction are high. Without a change in current policies, the federal...

Issued Jointly With   On September 29, 2003, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities joined with the Committee for Economic Development and the Concord Coalition for a press...

Developed Jointly WithThe Bush Administration’s fiscal year 2004 budget proposal appears to provide a modest amount of funding to help states meet Medicaid costs during this time of state...

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The 2001 federal tax legislation includes a phaseout of the federal estate tax, culminating in full repeal in 2010. On a much faster track, the legislation repealed over four years...

The House welfare reauthorization bill (H.R. 240) contains a proposal to allow five states to elect a food stamp block grant in lieu of the regular federal Food Stamp Program. A block grant,...

Developed Jointly WithThe Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 replaced the nation's basic cash assistance program for poor families with the Temporary...

Developed Jointly With   Until passage of the 1996 welfare law, legal immigrants were generally eligible for public benefits on the same basis as citizens. The welfare law conditioned...

Developed Jointly WithA significant number of current and former TANF recipients have various barriers to finding and maintaining employment. Among the most common barriers are physical...

Developed Jointly WithThe debate over TANF's role in strengthening families and promoting marriage may be among the liveliest of the reauthorization debates. It coincides with the...

Developed Jointly WithExecutive SummaryState fiscal conditions, already in decline prior to the September 11 attacks, are rapidly approaching a state of crisis. According to the National ...

 September 9, 2001State Responses to Tight Fiscal ConditionsShort-Term Fixes May Backfire if the Economy Does Not Soon Recover; Cyclical Downturn Masks Structural Problems...

Executive SummaryThe Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program is an employment and savings incentive program for low-income families that have Section 8 vouchers or live in public housing. The...

Many legal immigrants fear that if they receive various public benefits, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) or State Department will decide they are likely to become a “public...

Under the proposed renters’ credit, states would have the option to use their credit authority for tenant-based credits, credits allocated through banks that lend to rental owners, or project-based...