This page shows a chronological list of all CBPP materials.
Las acciones que va a tomar el presidente Biden hoy representan un paso importante para garantizar que los Estados Unidos, nuevamente, les dé la bienvenida a personas que desean construir una vida en este país. También garantizan que los inmigrantes y familiares que ya estén aquí puedan acceder a cuidado médico y otros servicios vitales.
The TANF block grant can play an important role in stabilizing families, but it provides cash assistance to few families in need and the benefits it does provide are not sufficient to help afford the basics.
Non-elderly adults without children, one of the largest demographic groups in the United States, are left out of many economic and health security programs that are effective at reducing poverty and expanding access to health coverage for other groups.
These links and interactive tables provide state-by-state data on participants in a variety of programs for families and individuals living with low income.
The nation’s basic supports for low-income, non-elderly adults without children are weak, fragmented, and often highly restrictive, leaving many of these individuals without help they need to afford the basics.
The nation’s basic supports for low-income, non-elderly adults without children are weak, fragmented, and often highly restrictive, leaving many of these individuals without help they need to afford the basics.
The American Rescue Plan, the emergency relief proposal that President Biden announced in mid-January and that Congress will begin considering soon, includes key investments to mitigate high levels of hunger and hardship.
While government programs have done much to narrow these disparities in poverty, further progress will require stronger government efforts to reduce poverty and discrimination and build opportunity for all.
Extensive research has found the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children to be a cost-effective investment that improves the nutrition and health of low-income families.
We applaud President Biden’s announcement today that he will reverse harmful Trump administration housing rules that have undermined efforts to promote racial equity and reverse the nation’s legacy of housing discrimination.
The President’s executive order to address food hardship is a strong response to families’ immediate hardship during the COVID crisis and takes an important step, consistent with congressional direction from the 2018 Farm Bill, to re-evaluate the adequacy of SNAP benefits in helping low-income Americans afford an adequate diet.
The sizeable revenue shortfalls and added costs that states, localities, tribal nations, and territories face due to COVID-19 call for added federal aid that’s temporary but significant.
Shortchanging the immediate substantial needs of the economy in the name of younger generations would be shortsighted and even self-defeating.
Alongside legislation to expand health coverage and make it more affordable, the Biden Administration can take administrative actions to reduce the uninsured rate, begin to address disparities in health coverage, and improve the affordability and quality of coverage for many people.
Along with pushing for full ACA repeal, President Trump also took administrative actions throughout his time in office that caused people to lose coverage or made coverage less comprehensive or less affordable.
President-elect Biden’s emergency relief proposal is a substantial, responsible plan that would significantly reduce the hardship that millions of people across the country are now facing.
State TANF spending choices can exacerbate racial inequities and unequal access to TANF cash assistance.
The jobs recovery that began in May 2020 had run out of steam by the time the end-of-year legislation was enacted, the latest jobs report shows.
States spend only about a fifth of their combined federal and state dollars under TANF on basic assistance for families with children.
