Affordable housing is a basic human need, but many families’ incomes aren’t high enough to afford market-rate rents in their ...

Republican proposals that Congress might consider this year could take away income assistance and services from families with ...

High-income households and profitable corporations would grow even wealthier under Republican proposals for trillions of ...

This week at CBPP, we focused on state budgets and taxes, food assistance, health, poverty and inequality, and the federal budget.On state budgets and taxes, Wesley Tharpe and ...

A series of high-stakes federal policy debates will take place this year as President Trump and a Republican-controlled ...

Republican proposals Congress could consider this year would take away or reduce food assistance from tens of millions of people who need it to afford groceries. A range of proposals, including a menu ...

For millions of workers, their jobs don’t pay enough to feed their families and afford other basic needs. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) fills that gap: roughly 15.7 million ...

This technical note explains how we adjust the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) ten-year budget baseline issued in January 2025 to create our CBPP baseline, which we use in our analyses of ...