About 6 million people will lose SNAP food assistance if BBCE is eliminated — more than 4 million of them, including 1.8 ...

Balanced budget amendments are a highly ill-advised method for addressing the nation’s long-term fiscal problems, this version particularly so because it stacks the deck in favor of spending cuts over ...

McCaffrey, Senior Policy Analyst on the Housing and Income Security team at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a ...

Late last night, the House Agriculture Committee voted to advance a deeply flawed farm bill that turns its back on the millions of low-income families struggling to afford groceries in the wake ...

Our nation faces serious long-term fiscal challenges. Addressing them will require policymakers to recognize several realities.

Weaponizing fraud and using it as a pretext to take funds away from states will destabilize their programs and ultimately take health care from people who can least afford it.

Meeting the needs of new and expecting parents and young children, such as ensuring access to nutritious food and preventive health services, improves maternal and child health outcomes. Both Medicaid ...

This week at CBPP, we focused on food assistance, health, housing, and the economy.

Make a gift that will help lift people out of poverty. Give monthly and make an even bigger difference. Over the last four decades, the Center has played a significant role, in collaboration with ...