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.

The end of the school year usually coincides with a troubling spike in childhood hunger as low-income children lose access to free and reduced-price school meals. Federal policymakers likely staved...

The Biden budget departs sharply from the last decade of austerity.

This paper explores the background of the AVS requirement, the vendors that administer the systems; and the typical AVS process. It discusses AVSs’ current limitations and highlights best practices for advocates to promote and state agencies to implement to improve the AVS process and streamline eligibility determinations. Finally, it recommends federal action to help AVS states streamline processing.

A historically large share of the nation’s wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few. As a result, millions of American families have less wealth, and therefore fewer opportunities, than they otherwise would.

Among those who have gained coverage through Medicaid expansion are millions of workers in front-line and essential industries, including health care workers, bus drivers, grocery stores workers, food manufacturers, and others on whom millions of people rely.

While WIC programs operate under a set of federal rules and policies, state and local WIC agencies have considerable flexibility to determine how they certify new applicants and ongoing...

One way states can build more broadly shared prosperity is by strengthening their taxes on capital gains — the profits an investor realizes when selling an asset that has grown in value, such as shares of stock, mutual funds, real estate, or artwork.

The 2.2 million uninsured adults with incomes below the poverty line who were caught in the Medicaid “coverage gap” in 2019 are a varied group, but they all live in states that have failed to adopt the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion.

When parents have health insurance, their children are more likely to be insured, a highly credible recent study confirms. Medicaid coverage expansions for parents over the years, including the Affordable Care Act’s expansion, have translated into significant coverage gains for children.

Targeted text messaging offers a promising option to states planning strategies to reach more families eligible for WIC, as several recent pilot programs have shown it may help increase awareness about and enrollment in the program.

States must balance their budgets even when they face recessions and other unexpected shocks to their revenues.

The nation now needs to make investments in children, workers, and health care that will enable more people to reach their full potential.

Tax law and policy experts have widely criticized the deduction.

The proposal provides our first comprehensive view of the Administration’s agenda for building toward a more equitable economy where everyone can thrive.

Income significantly contributes to opportunities for good health.[1] People with higher incomes can more easily afford to meet the full range of their children’s needs, from nutritious food and...

Raising corporate taxes by a modest amount will not undermine the economic recovery and, in fact, using those revenues to finance needed investments will help make the economy stronger.

Congress should adopt these proposed changes, which would result in reductions of child poverty and provide income support for millions of people. And it should go two steps further.

When schools closed in the spring of 2020 due to COVID-19, federal policymakers enacted new laws to enable the nation’s child nutrition programs for lower-income schoolchildren to shift their...

In upcoming recovery legislation, Congress should include a significant infusion of federal funds to build and repair K-12 schools.