Seven states this year enacted significant revenue-raising policies to advance key priorities and mitigate the massive ...

The President’s proposal to raise the federal excise tax on tobacco products and use the additional revenue to expand preschool education, which he included in both his fiscal year 2014 and 2015 ...

Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces shrank in nearly every state after premium tax credit enhancements expired ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

State budget decisions should matter to all of us. State budgets affect the quality of life of workers, families, and communities across the nation ― they decide the fate of roads, schools, health ...

Some conservative critics of federal social programs, including leading presidential candidates, are sounding an alarm that the United States is rapidly becoming an “entitlement society” in which ...

The two main federal payroll taxes levied on wages are known as Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) taxes. Employees and employers both pay FICA taxes: employees usually have them withheld from ...

This week at CBPP, we focused on food assistance, state budgets and taxes, and health.On food assistance, Dottie Rosenbaum, Joseph Llobrera, Catlin Nchako, and Luis updated our ...