The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the nation’s most important anti-hunger tool, built on the principle ...

This week at CBPP, we focused on food assistance, Social Security, and housing.On food assistance, Steven Carlson, Joseph ...

The Trump Administration abruptly ended federal support for a highly effective intervention that helps disabled people ...

Despite repeatedly promising not to cut Social Security, the Trump Administration is reportedly preparing a proposed rule that could reduce the share of applicants who qualify for Social ...

A government shutdown does not provide the Administration any additional legal authority to fire federal employees, limit ...

Sound investments that reduce early childhood adversity can strengthen the foundations of physical and mental health, delivering lifelong benefits.[2] Extensive research finds that the ...

The Trump Administration is preparing to propose a rule to cut Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits and strip eligibility for hundreds of thousands of low-income older people and severely ...

New, high-quality research quantifying the powerful impact of federal non-defense research and development shows why the ...

Deeply damaging health coverage proposals recently advanced by Republican congressional leaders and conservative think tanks could gain traction in Congress next year. [1] Cutting Medicaid would harm ...

A series of high-stakes federal policy debates will take place this year as President-elect Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress seek to implement their policy agenda and address looming ...

The fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills approved by the House Appropriations Committee make major cuts in a wide range of domestic priorities. Among those hardest hit are programs crucial to the ...

Millions of small-business and self-employed workers gained coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Their uninsured rates reached record lows in 2022, due in part to policies that stabilized ...