The Trump Administration became so determined to deny people their SNAP benefits that it fought all the way to the Supreme ...

Climate change is causing storms, wildfires, droughts, and floods to become more frequent and severe, and these hazards are ...

Everyone should be able to see a doctor when they are sick, afford their prescriptions, and get the preventative care their ...

The national recession has had such a devastating effect on state finances that states took in $87 billion less in tax revenue from October 2008 through September 2009 than they collected in the ...

Executive SummaryWhat Can States Do?Foster cross-agency coordination on hazard mitigation and climate adaptationRequire ...

President Trump and some congressional Republicans have floated ending or cutting marketplace tax credits that help more than ...

Few budgetary concepts generate as much unintended confusion and deliberate misinformation as the Social Security trust funds. The trust funds are invested in Treasury securities that are just as ...

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, popularly known as WIC, provides nutritious foods, counseling on healthy eating, breastfeeding support, and health care ...

About one-third of adult residents of Puerto Rico experience food insecurity. Puerto Rico residents do not have access to the same federal assistance that is available to people in the mainland United ...

In 2020, for every 100 families in poverty nationwide, only 21 received TANF cash assistance — down from 68 families in 1996. Families experiencing poverty need access to cash assistance to help them ...

Over 600,000 people are released from state and federal prisons every year. [1] They reenter their communities with a set of complex needs and challenging vulnerabilities, including chronic physical ...

Affordable housing is a basic human need and rental assistance is proven to make housing more affordable. But a House committee recently passed a bill that could result in about 411,000 fewer people ...