A Missouri ballot measure would eliminate the state's personal income tax, jeopardizing billions of dollars in yearly support ...

This week at CBPP, we focused on food assistance, state budgets and taxes, and health.

Many states are threatening to take away local governments’ ability to build thriving communities by cutting or capping ...

This resource outlines key dates as states implement eligibility changes mandated by H.R. 1, including the Medicaid work ...

Exemptions and deductions indirectly reduce the amount of taxes a filer owes by reducing his or her “taxable income,” which is the amount of income on which a filer pays taxes. (For more information ...

What Is Federal Rental Assistance? Three major programs — Housing Choice Vouchers, Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance, and public housing — assist about 87 percent of the households receiving ...

Two key tax credit provisions in the American Rescue Plan Act will provide significant help to those on the fault lines of some of the pandemic’s worst economic effects. People who have lower incomes, ...

Between the megabill’s July 2025 enactment and March 2026 (the last month with data on all states): These participation declines began before some of the major ...

SNAP provides important nutritional support for working families with low-paying jobs, low-income older adults (60 years and older) and people with disabilities living on fixed incomes, and other ...

more than 4 million of them, including 1.8 million children, because their household income exceeds SNAP’s restrictive federal limits, the rest because their household assets exceed federal limits The ...