Local public services are cornerstones of our communities, ensuring that our children are educated, our communities are safe ...

This rescission package did not come to Congress under normal circumstances. The Administration illegally impounded the funds ...

Following a series of middle-of-the-night backroom deals, and less than an hour after the final language was unveiled, Senate ...

The Senate is barreling toward a vote on a still-not-finished bill that would take away health coverage and food assistance ...

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) announced today that Nicole Greenidge-Hoskins has joined the organization ...

Housing is a basic human need, and no one should be turned away from resources and services that help them obtain stable, ...

House and Senate Republicans have now passed a bill that will raise families’ food and health care costs, increase poverty ...

The long-term outlook for the Social Security trust funds has declined slightly, the latest annual report from the program’s ...

The budget details what the federal government will spend on particular programs and how it will finance that spending.We analyze the President’s annual budget proposal and major congressional budget ...

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), enacted in 1996, replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), which provided cash assistance to families with children experiencing poverty.

One of the harshest rules in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) limits unemployed individuals aged 18 to 50 not living with children to ...