The Affordable Care Act’s successes show that strategic policy interventions can significantly improve access to health coverage, particularly for communities that struggle the most with access. But further improvements are needed to build on these successes.

The federal-state unemployment insurance (UI) system helps many people who have lost their jobs by temporarily replacing part of their wages. (See “Policy Basics: Unemployment Insurance.”) Under...

The strong economy calls into question claims that the demand stimulus from the American Rescue Plan Act was the major source of inflation.

Closing the coverage gap would increase health insurance coverage, reduce racial health disparities, and improve health care access, health outcomes, and financial security.

Substantial relief and recovery measures helped fuel an economic recovery beginning in May 2020 that made the deepest recession in the post-World War II era also the shortest.

States with corporate income taxes would benefit from requiring all corporations with foreign parents or subsidiaries to calculate their tax liability using worldwide combined reporting.

Fourteen states have enacted a child tax credit, and 31 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have enacted their own version of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded eligibility for affordable health coverage.

A growing body of research shows that the corporate rate cut has delivered large gains to top earners but done little for everyone else.

Who Qualifies for SSI and What Benefits Do They Receive?The vast majority of SSI beneficiaries — 84 percent — are eligible due to a severe disability (including blindness). In January 2024,...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) permits states to expand Medicaid coverage to adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the poverty level. States that have adopted the Medicaid expansion have dramatically lowered their uninsured rates.

Peggy Bailey makes policy recommendations for the housing affordability crisis that will move us toward the goal of ensuring that everyone in this country is able to afford safe, stable housing in a community of their choice.

President Biden’s 2025 budget lays out a sound approach to key decisions that need to be made next year: a fairer tax code that raises more revenues from wealthy people and profitable corporations to invest in people, communities, and the economy and to improve our fiscal outlook.

Critical decisions lie ahead in three areas in particular: tax policy, health care, and investments in people and communities.

Policymakers and the public should understand that the 2017 Trump tax law was skewed to the rich, was expensive and eroded the U.S. revenue base, and failed to deliver promised economic benefits. A 2025 course correction is needed.

A high-stakes tax policy debate will accelerate this year through 2025 over the pending expiration of the individual income and estate tax provisions of the 2017 Trump tax law. Policymakers should...

Statement of Sharon Parrott, CBPP President, on first “minibus” spending bill and other legislative priorities needing congressional action

Testimony of Wesley Tharpe, Senior Advisor for State Tax Policy,  Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Before the Pennsylvania House Finance Subcommittee on Tax Modernization

The final round of federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds is set to end soon.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued guidance and waiver approvals that broaden and clarify the ways in which states can use Medicaid funds to help pay for clinically appropriate, evidence-based services that address these health-related social needs (HRSN).

Criticisms of the provision ignore the realities of families’ lives. Far-fetched claims that the lookback would lead many parents with low incomes to strategically stop working defy common sense and do not withstand scrutiny.

Chair Atterbeary, Vice Chair Wilkins, and members of the House Ways and Means Committee, thank you for the opportunity to submit this testimony in favor of House Bill 1007.My name is Don Griswold....

Testimony of Michael Mazerov, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Before the Maryland House of Delegates Ways and Means Committee

States are missing out on the opportunity to improve pregnancy-related and child health. Only 51.2 percent of eligible individuals participated in WIC in 2021, well below earlier years.