For 45 years, the federal Pell Grant program has been the cornerstone of financial assistance for students from low- and moderate-income families, helping millions go ... Read more
The House Budget Committee will consider as early as this week a 2018 budget plan that will set a framework for budget, tax, and appropriations ... Read more
President Trump’s 2018 budget includes $2.5 trillion in cuts over the next decade to low-income programs like SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly food ... Read more
President Trump’s forthcoming 2018 budget will likely propose policies that would significantly damage the well-being of tens of millions of low- and middle-income people. Read more
President Trump has begun to define and implement an agenda that would harm the families he says he wants to help, often to drive policies that would benefit very high-income households and corporations. Read more
The President’s emerging fiscal agenda features large increases in defense funding that are offset by cuts in a range of critical domestic priorities. Read more
President Trump’s plans to raise defense funding by $54 billion in 2018 and cut non-defense discretionary (NDD) spending — which funds key priorities like education and job training, clean water, scientific and medical research, veterans’ medical care, and homeland security — by the same amount would lower NDD funding by 11 percent below this year’s level. Read more
“Our plan would … ensure that our tax code works together with the federal welfare system, so that low-income workers are able to climb into ... Read more
The child poverty rate fell from 21.8 percent in 2012 to 19.9 percent in 2013 in the first statistically significant one-year drop in child poverty ... Read more
