This week at CBPP, we focused on income security, food assistance, and state budgets and taxes.On income security, Vicki Turetsky and Diana Azevedo-McCaffrey detailed how ...

Housing is a basic human need, but millions of people in this country cannot afford a stable home. Rental assistance directly ...

States are finding themselves at the mercy of automatic tax cuts as the consequences of years-old tax policies take aim at state budgets. Budget writers and analysts in several states have begun ...

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Block grants are fixed pots of money that the federal government gives to states to provide benefits or services. Some policymakers call their block grant proposals "Opportunity Grants" or “merged ...

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The Center’s spring internship will be remote. Remote interns must be in the U.S. for the duration of the internship. Intern work hours are generally expected to be during core Eastern Time business ...

What Is Federal Rental Assistance? Three major programs — Housing Choice Vouchers, Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance, and Public Housing — assist about 82 percent of the households receiving ...

Key provisions of the 2017 Trump tax law are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025. Given the law’s fundamental problems — its high cost, skew toward high-income people, and failure to produce the ...

The Census Bureau has released nationwide figures for poverty, income, and health insurance coverage in 2023 from its Current Population Survey. Additional health insurance data from the American ...

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen is calling legislators back into session this week, assigning them the impossible task of finding $1.85 billion to redirect toward local property tax cuts. Policymakers can ...