The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a high-caliber strategic policy organization that informs and shapes public policies to reduce poverty, promote equity, and build ... Read more
Michigan’s Medicaid expansion has been extremely successful, extending coverage and access to care to over 1 million low-income adults in Michigan since April 2014 and ... Read more
Fifteen states plus the District of Columbia raised benefits for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in fiscal year 2018 (which began July 1, 2017 ... Read more
This week at CBPP, we focused on health, federal taxes, state budgets and taxes, food assistance, and the economy. On health , Jennifer Wagner ... Read more
Realtors, veterinarians, and a range of other industry groups are pushing to dramatically expand the scope of the 2017 tax law’s “pass-through” deduction to allow ... Read more
SNAP (food stamps) and Medicaid give many Americans, including many low-wage workers, access to nutritious food and health coverage. Despite their important roles, recent federal ... Read more
North Carolina voters will decide in November whether to tighten the cap on the state’s income tax rate, which would make it harder to fund ... Read more
State and local tax systems can be a powerful tool for boosting economic opportunity, creating broadly shared prosperity, and building equitable state economies. But in ... Read more
Some 4,109 Arkansas Medicaid beneficiaries lost coverage on October 1 for not reporting at least 80 hours of work or work-related activities for three months, ... Read more
John Barna Government Affairs John Barna is an intern with the Government Affairs team. He previously interned on Capitol Hill for Senator Chuck Schumer and ... Read more
