This week at CBPP, we focused on the federal budget, state budgets and taxes, the economy, health, food assistance, and Social Security. On the federal ... Read more
Here are the CBPP statements, papers, blog posts, and tweet threads to date on issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic; we’ll update this list as we issue more analyses. Read more
One important form of the CARES Act’s aid for states is the Education Stabilization Fund, which provides them with $30.75 billion to support their K-12 and higher education systems in the coming months. Read more
This chart book tracks the current economic expansion and the evolution of the economy under President Trump, both in terms of how the current expansion compares with other expansions over the past several decades and how it compares with his claims of what his policies will accomplish. Read more
April 3, 2020: We’ve updated this post. It’s welcome news that Treasury and the IRS will use the authority that Congress gave them to automatically ... Read more
COVID-19 has triggered a state budget crisis. States, tribes, and local governments are incurring huge new costs as they seek to contain and treat the ... Read more
There’s confusion about whether unemployed workers not raising minor children in their home can get SNAP, given Trump Administration efforts to tighten a rule limiting ... Read more
In this backgrounder, we address: the President's annual budget request, which is supposed to kick off the budget process; the congressional budget resolution — how ... Read more
