President Trump’s proposal to rescind $9.4 billion in previously approved spending, which the Senate is expected to vote on ...

A proposal by the Trump Administration to cut off rental assistance after two years even if participants still can’t afford ...

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), enacted in 1996, replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), which provided cash assistance to families with children experiencing poverty.

Many communities across the United States are considering new approaches to public safety that go beyond traditional policing, and the federal American Rescue Plan has given them a unique opportunity ...

President Trump’s proposal to rescind $9.4 billion in previously approved spending, which the Senate is expected to vote on this week, is a bad idea for several reasons, as noted in a recent ...

State Budget Cuts in the New Fiscal Year Are Unnecessarily Harmful, July 28, 2011 New School Year Brings Steep Cuts in State Funding for Schools, October 7, 2011 With tax revenue still declining as a ...

While a strong economy will hopefully be long-lasting, many of the measures that have helped families afford rent are temporary, and millions of renters still struggle to afford housing, reflecting ...

Hardship in 2020 and 2021 would have been far worse without extraordinary steps taken by the federal government, states, and localities to respond to the pandemic and its economic fallout.

No single piece of legislation establishes the annual federal budget. Rather, Congress makes spending and tax decisions through a variety of legislative actions in ways that have evolved over more ...

Increasingly, Medicare enrollees receive their benefits through a Medicare Advantage (MA) health plan offered by a private insurer rather than from traditional Medicare, which is a government-run, ...

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 ...

To investigate how grocery spending varies with SNAP benefits and income, we regress reported spending on food bought at stores on reported SNAP benefit level for a sample of households reporting SNAP ...