States are finding themselves at the mercy of automatic tax cuts as the consequences of years-old tax policies take aim at state budgets. Budget writers and analysts in several states have begun ...
Housing is a basic human need, but millions of people in this country cannot afford a stable home. Rental assistance directly ...
This week at CBPP, we focused on housing, food assistance, and health.On housing, Sonya Acosta outlined three principles for a rental assistance guarantee: providing ...
This week at CBPP, we focused on federal taxes, climate change, health, and the economy.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is a nonpartisan research and policy institute that advances federal and state policies to help build a nation where everyone — regardless of income, ...
A proposal in the Biden-Harris Administration’s 2025 budget [1] would require households with more than $100 million in wealth to pay income taxes of at least 25 percent of their annual income, ...
The Census Bureau has released nationwide figures for poverty, income, and health insurance coverage in 2023 from its Current Population Survey. Additional health insurance data from the American ...
Key provisions of the 2017 Trump tax law are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025. Given the law’s fundamental problems — its high cost, skew toward high-income people, and failure to produce the ...
Few people understand the impact of Medicaid better than people enrolled in the program, but their perspectives are often underrepresented in official decision-making. New federal rules present an ...
The share of people lacking health coverage reached an all-time low for the second consecutive year in 2023, falling to 7.9 percent, according to American Community Survey (ACS) data the Census Bureau ...