The brazenness and impact of the Trump Administration’s unprecedented interference with federal funding have grown in recent ...

Congressional Republicans failed to extend premium tax credit (PTC) enhancements at the end of 2025, and now the harm of ...

A House subcommittee is expected to release next week its 2027 housing funding bill, giving Congress an opportunity to ...

Deliberate policy choices by President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress have increased costs people pay to meet their ...

Over 2 million uninsured adults with incomes below the poverty line, most who live in the South and are people of color, don’t have a pathway to health coverage, because their states have refused to ...

This week at CBPP, we focused on state budgets and taxes and on the economy.

Deliberate policy choices by President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress have increased costs people pay to meet their basic needs.

Improvements to premium tax credits, enacted in the American Rescue Plan and extended by the Inflation Reduction Act, have helped millions of people afford health coverage in the Affordable Care Act ...

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the primary cash assistance program for families with children when they face a crisis or have very low incomes, can play a key role in ensuring that ...

The labor market showed some signs of improvement in 2004; most notable in this regard was the job growth that occurred in every month of the year. This was the first year of consistent job growth ...

This brief report presents some basic facts about state and local employees: the jobs they perform, how many there are, how their pay compares with pay in the private sector, and how much states and ...