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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is the only source of federal income support targeted to families caring for children with disabilities, and it reaches only the lowest-income and most severely ...

Social Security faces a significant — though manageable — long-term funding shortfall, which policymakers should address primarily by increasing Social Security’s tax revenues. If policymakers elect ...

Absent the COVID-19 pandemic, the near-term outlook for the Social Security trust funds would have changed very little in the past year, the latest annual report from the program’s trustees shows. [1] ...

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 ...