The House may vote this week on a constitutional amendment requiring the federal government to balance its budget. Balanced budget amendments are a highly ill-advised method for addressing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Note: Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. Latine category may contain individuals of any race who identify as Latine or Hispanic; other categories exclude individuals who identify as Latine or ...

More than 4 million people, including 1 million children, are expected to see their food assistance cut substantially or eliminated altogether.