In the wake of a historic pandemic that created enormous economic dislocation, the economy made a much stronger and faster recovery than anticipated. The latest inflation data have been very encouraging, and recession fears have receded.

The House process stands in stark contrast to the work of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which so far has been bipartisan — with several bills being adopted unanimously.

States can and should use the flexibility and financial resources they have to support parents receiving income support from the TANF program and allow them to participate in two- and four-year college programs.

As Congress considers appropriations bills for fiscal year 2024, new data confirm that WIC needs significant additional funding — well beyond the amounts provided in current House and Senate...

The Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously advanced a Financial Services funding bill that passes a minimal test of protecting honest taxpayers by maintaining efforts to rebuild and modernize an IRS decimated by years of steep funding cuts.

The 58th anniversary of Medicaid’s enactment this month provides an opportunity to reflect on the program’s vital role in our health care system and on what can be done to sustain and advance high rates of coverage across the country.

It is critical that policymakers fill Social Security’s financing gap — and that they do so in a way that keeps the program’s promises to workers and beneficiaries and does more to protect people with low incomes from hardship.

What Are Project-Based Vouchers?Most Housing Choice Vouchers are “tenant-based,” meaning people can use them to rent any private apartment that meets program guidelines....

By the end of June, the Agriculture Department (USDA) will release overpayment and underpayment error rates for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. The error rates may be higher than pre-pandemic because in 2022 states were still being affected by some of the ongoing challenges of the pandemic. These rates should be interpreted through the lens of what states accomplished during the pandemic and the key role SNAP played in preventing what could have been a surge in food insecurity.

HSAs overwhelmingly benefit high-income people and exacerbate racial and ethnic inequities.

Understanding the House and Senate funding bills relative to the agreement will be important in the months ahead.

Claims that an expanded credit would dramatically reduce the workforce contradict available real-world evidence.

The bill prioritizes giving new windfall tax benefits to wealthy corporate shareholders.

A robust expansion should come before corporate tax breaks that House Republicans are likely to propose.

The 2017 tax cuts enacted under President Trump were regressive and expensive, and their benefits to the wealthy failed to trickle down as promised. Looking at the pass-through deduction...

The debt ceiling agreement would put almost 750,000 older adults aged 50-54 at risk of losing food assistance through an expansion of the existing, failed SNAP work-reporting requirement.

The agreement ratchets up the ineffective federal work requirements but will have a more modest impact than the House-passed bill.

The agreement puts hundreds of thousands of older adults aged 50-54 at risk of losing food assistance.

These cuts defy science and are shortsighted given the long-term health benefits of sound nutrition during these life stages.

Various laws, regulations, and guidance that federal policymakers put in place since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic have expanded access to testing, vaccination, and treatment for the virus. This fact sheet summarizes these provisions and explains how the federal government, the states, and private health care providers can implement them so that all people can get the care they need.

Chairman Whitehouse, Ranking Member Grassley, members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you this morning at this important hearing. I am Samantha Jacoby, Senior Tax...