SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps) lifted 4 million people above the official poverty line in 2012, according to new ... Read more
Now that Congress has returned from the summer recess, it will have to set funding levels for discretionary programs for fiscal year 2014 (or risk ... Read more
The Cato Institute released a report this week that argues that people on “welfare” are better off than low-income working families. In reality, that couldn’t ... Read more
In a new version of its report from 1995, the Cato Institute claims, “[t]he current welfare system provides such a high level of benefits that ... Read more
Since the Great Depression, the United States has developed a set of supports to help low-income families, seniors, children, and people with disabilities make ends ... Read more
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the 2014 appropriations bill today for the Departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services (HHS), one of 12 ... Read more
Our new report on the Senate Appropriations Committee’s spending plan, along with our recent report on the House Appropriations Committee ... Read more
The Senate Appropriations Committee agreed on June 20 (by a party-line vote) to fund defense and non-defense discretionary programs in 2014 at the levels set ... Read more
