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Pre-2005 Content Archive

Testimony

Building on SNAP’s Effectiveness in the Farm Bill

Much of SNAP’s success is due to its structure: it is designed so that everyone who is eligible can get benefits; it expands automatically to meet needs during tough times; and it focuses its benefits to the households with the least resources available to purchase groceries, assisting families with low incomes to obtain adequate nutrition, regardless of where they live.
Blog

In Case You Missed It…

This week at CBPP, we focused on immigration, the federal budget and taxes, state budgets and taxes, and the economy.On immigration, we released a statement from Shelby Gonzales...
Blog

In Case You Missed It...

This week at CBPP, we focused on health, the federal budget, state budgets and taxes, and food assistance.On health, Farah Erzouki explained that states should act to preserve people’s coverage as...
Primer

What Is a Health Savings Account?

Some policymakers are proposing to expand Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) as a way to make health care more affordable. But HSAs do little or nothing to help uninsured people afford coverage, while...
Blog

In Case You Missed It…

This week at CBPP, we focused on state budgets and taxes, the federal budget and taxes, food assistance, health, and the economy. On state budgets and taxes, Wesley Tharpe...
Blog

In Case You Missed It…

This week at CBPP, we focused on food assistance, housing, health, state budgets and taxes, and the economy.On food assistance, Katie Bergh and Dottie Rosenbaum emphasized how House...

House Republicans’ Pledge to Cut Appropriated Programs to 2022 Level Would Have Severe Effects, Particularly for Non-Defense Programs

House Republicans reportedly pledged to cut programs funded by annual appropriations in 2024 back to their 2022 levels as part of the deal to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy as Speaker. The required cuts to important domestic needs would be deep under any likely scenario that meets their pledge, and would hit programs still feeling the after-effects of a decade of austerity.
Blog

In Case You Missed It…

This week at CBPP, we focused on state budgets and taxes, income security, the federal budget, food assistance, health, and the economy.On state budgets and taxes, Iris Hinh...
Blog

In Case You Missed It…

This week at CBPP, we focused on the federal budget, and in particular President Biden’s 2024 budget proposal. We also focused on federal and state taxes, health, income security, and the economy....

Robust COVID Relief Bolstered Economy and Reduced Hardship for Millions

Three years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic began to take hold in the U.S., sending the economy into a downward spiral. Amid intense fear and hardship, federal policymakers responded, enacting five relief bills in 2020 that provided an estimated $3.3 trillion of relief and the American Rescue Plan in 2021, which added another $1.8 trillion. This robust policy response helped make the COVID recession the shortest on record and helped fuel an economic recovery that has brought the unemployment rate which peaked at 14.8 percent in April 2020, to a low of 3.4 percent in January 2023.