In May, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a proposed rule that would upend the federal grantmaking process by ...
Some 2.2 million fewer people were enrolled in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces as of February 2026 compared to December 2025, after Republicans chose to not extend premium tax credit (PTC) ...
To create the federal rental assistance factsheets for the 50 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and the United States, CBPP analyzed survey data from the American Community Survey (ACS) ...
Congress has passed a short-term funding measure to fund the government into December, but it still must pass full-year funding bills for fiscal year 2027. While the Senate has not yet introduced any ...
The Treasury Department has proposed a rule that would take away the refunded portion of certain tax credits from many individuals with lawful immigration status. [1] Only individuals who have one of ...
At a moment when the cuts enacted in last year’s harmful Republican reconciliation law have begun to take away food assistance and health coverage from millions of people, today’s Census data are a ...
On Tuesday, September 15, the Census Bureau will release its 2025 Current Population Survey data on poverty, income, and health insurance. Additional health insurance data from the Census Bureau’s ...
As children head back to school, it’s important to remember the role SNAP plays in supporting their healthy development. SNAP helps ensure that children have enough food and improves their health and ...
This week at CBPP, we focused on income security, poverty and inequality, and food assistance.
New research finds that 1 in 3 people applying for SNAP benefits are denied not because they are ineligible, but because they don’t make it through the complex process. [1] These procedural denials ...
No one in our country should go hungry, and SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) has been our nation’s most effective anti-hunger program for decades. However, sweeping cuts to SNAP ...