A Missouri ballot measure would eliminate the state's personal income tax, jeopardizing billions of dollars in yearly support ...

Many states are threatening to take away local governments’ ability to build thriving communities by cutting or capping ...

This resource outlines key dates as states implement eligibility changes mandated by H.R. 1, including the Medicaid work ...

This week at CBPP, we focused on food assistance, state budgets and taxes, and health.

The tax provisions of the Republican megabill double down on the failures of the 2017 tax law, which was skewed in favor of the richest people in the country, was expensive and eroded the nation’s ...

Note: this analysis complements CBPP’s “Chart Book: Tracking the Recovery from the Pandemic Recession,” which contains data and analysis through the end of 2023. [1] The U.S. economy entered 2023 with ...

This spreadsheet analyzes AFDC and TANF caseload and poverty data from 1978 until 2023. Following TANF’s inception in 1996, the national TANF-to-poverty ratio has continued to decline until 2023, when ...

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) has begun publishing guidance outlining how states must begin implementing some of the deepest SNAP cuts from the Republican megabill enacted in July. [1] While ...

The government funding deadline is fast approaching. With the Trump Administration’s continued efforts to impound and rescind funding, complicating Congress’s ability to reach an agreement on funding ...

more than 4 million of them, including 1.8 million children, because their household income exceeds SNAP’s restrictive federal limits, the rest because their household assets exceed federal limits The ...