As we mark the 50th anniversary of President Johnson’s War on Poverty, we should recognize that poverty has fallen significantly over the last half-century when ... Read more
Many changes in American society over the last 50 years have affected poverty. Some have exerted upward pressure on poverty, such as an increase in ... Read more
Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced a small-scale budget package on Tuesday that would replace ... Read more
Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) have said they intend to focus the recently started budget ... Read more
Many policymakers want to give the President one of Congress’s preeminent powers — to decide how to spend federal funds — so he can shift ... Read more
The House and Senate, which passed starkly different ten-year budget plans this spring, have convened a conference committee that will likely focus on whether (and ... Read more
House Republicans unveiled a plan yesterday to raise (or suspend) the debt ceiling for six weeks but leave the government shutdown in place, raising the ... Read more
The House leadership’s piecemeal approach to temporarily fund politically sensitive programs — the third installment of which will take place in the House today — ... Read more
As Congress sets program funding levels for fiscal year 2014, it must determine whether to replace the sequestration cuts called for in the 2011 Budget ... Read more
