Medicaid expansion remains a critical source of coverage for people with low incomes, many of whom lack access to affordable health coverage through other sources. In the ten remaining non-expansion ...
McCaffrey, Senior Policy Analyst on Housing and Income Security Team, Before the Council of the District of Columbia ...
The Trump Administration’s sweeping tariffs have harmed the economy by increasing input costs and uncertainty for businesses ...
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 ...
Our nation faces serious long-term fiscal challenges. Addressing them will require policymakers to recognize several realities.
Opinion
House Agriculture Committee Advances Unacceptable Farm Bill, Leaving Low-Income Families Behind
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 ...
The Trump Administration and congressional Republicans advanced one of the most radically regressive policy agendas in our nation’s history during the first year of President Trump’s second term. As a ...
Annual premium increase, 60-year-old couple with income of $85,000 (401% FPL), by congressional district, 119th Congress Note: FPL = federal poverty level. Examples are based on 2026 average ...
The Trump Administration recently claimed that SNAP benefits are not available for November 2025 because SNAP’s “contingency funds are not legally available to cover regular benefits.” [1] This stands ...
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