Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has indicated, and media have reported, that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will run out of funding for SNAP food assistance for November as a ...
Only people with lawful immigration statuses are eligible for health coverage through Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) marketplace. Nothing in the current budget debate ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces are a key source of coverage for small business owners and self-employed workers, filling gaps that limited affordable coverage options for these enrollees ...
State policymakers nationwide have embarked on a tax-cutting spree over the past three years, using the cover of temporary budget surpluses stemming from robust federal aid in response to COVID-19 and ...
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 ...
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 ...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt-limit-and-cuts bill puts the U.S. economy at grave risk by using the need to raise the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip to force a set of unpopular, harmful ...
The bipartisan Child Tax Credit expansion in the tax bill negotiated by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden and House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith takes an important step toward ...
House Republicans’ fiscal year 2024 agriculture appropriations bill released yesterday would make harmful policy changes and deep funding cuts to two critical food assistance programs — WIC and SNAP — ...