The Child Tax Credit expansion drove child poverty sharply downward in 2021. Combined with other relief efforts, the expansion helped lower child poverty by more than 40 percent between 2020 and 2021, ...

Some of President Obama’s critics and political opponents have launched a line of argument that Obama is mostly to blame for the large federal budget deficits projected for the coming decade and that ...

Proponents of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts often argue that the economic and employment growth of the past several years establishes that these tax cuts “worked” and had strong beneficial effects. More ...

Medicaid is the largest health insurer in the United States, at over 80 million enrollees. [2] Its numerous benefits to enrollees include greater likelihood of completing school, higher wages, better ...

Cash assistance benefits for the nation's poorest families with children fell again in purchasing power in 2011 and are now at least 20 percent below their 1996 levels in 34 states, after adjusting ...

House Republicans’ fiscal year 2024 agriculture appropriations bill released yesterday would make harmful policy changes and deep funding cuts to two critical food assistance programs — WIC and SNAP — ...

The Impoundment Control Act (ICA) was passed to prevent unilateral presidential impoundments, not enable them. The ICA makes clear it does not allow the President to delay funding if authorizing and ...

Rents have increased over the last two years at a historic rate. Between December 2017 and September 2022, the median rent for newly leased units rose nearly 32 percent, with nearly all of that ...

While the economic package that Congress and the White House may craft in coming weeks is expected to be considerably smaller than legislation the House passed late last year, expanding child care so ...

President Biden’s recovery proposals — including both the American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan — would take important steps toward requiring wealthy households and profitable corporations to ...

A number of Republican members of Congress have introduced legislation over the past dozen years that would authorize Treasury to prioritize certain payments if the federal government reached the debt ...

Like a Hollywood fantasy, claims that tax subsidies for film and TV productions — which nearly every state has adopted in recent years — are cost-effective tools of job and income creation are more ...