This week at CBPP, we focused on health, housing, the economy, food assistance, and the federal budget. On health, Allie Gardner explained how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

Congress has passed a short-term funding measure to fund the government into December, but it still must pass full-year funding bills for fiscal year 2027. While the Senate has not yet introduced any ...

New research finds that 1 in 3 people applying for SNAP benefits are denied not because they are ineligible, but because they don’t make it through the complex process.

Everyone deserves affordable, safe energy to meet their everyday needs. But average electricity bills have risen close to 6 ...

At a moment when the cuts enacted in last year’s harmful Republican reconciliation law have begun to take away food assistance and health coverage from millions of people, today’s Census data are a ...

On Tuesday, September 15, the Census Bureau will release its 2025 Current Population Survey data on poverty, income, and health insurance. Additional health insurance data from the Census Bureau’s ...

Only individuals who have one of a narrow list of immigration statuses defined as “qualified” will remain eligible.

Child Tax Credit Helps Make Raising Children More Affordable, and Its Full Value Should Be Available to Families With Lower Incomes Every family should have a strong foundation of economic security ...

The harmful Republican reconciliation law enacted last July made unprecedented cuts to food assistance through SNAP, including a provision slashing federal funding for SNAP benefits and imposing these ...

Federal grantmaking processes are designed to be open, fair, reliable, and free of political influence, favoritism, or retaliation. [1] But since the first days following President Trump’s ...