Enhancements to premium tax credits (PTCs) cut out-of-pocket premiums by more than half, on average, for over 20 million ...

States and localities have options to secure additional revenue for their efforts to address housing affordability.

The Republican megabill enacted in July will require most states to pay a share of SNAP food benefit costs — for many states, ...

This week at CBPP, we focused on food assistance, state budgets and taxes, health, and federal taxes.On food assistance, Katie Bergh and Dottie Rosenbaum warned that ...

Most states’ prison populations are at historic highs after decades of extraordinary growth; in 36 states, the prison population has more than tripled as a share of the state population since 1978.

Critics of proposals to make the tax system more progressive or to take other steps to help lessen widening income inequality [2] sometimes cite a 2008 Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and ...

Some 500,000 to 1 million childless adults will be cut off SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly the Food Stamp Program) over the course of 2016 as a three-month limit on ...

Using information collected by one public benefit program to help enroll low-income people for other benefits for which they qualify makes programs more efficient and reduces hassles for struggling ...

The tax plan from President Trump and congressional Republican leaders would end the federal deduction for state and local taxes (SALT) — which allows taxpayers who itemize deductions on their federal ...

The national recession has had such a devastating effect on state finances that states took in $87 billion less in tax revenue from October 2008 through September 2009 than they collected in the ...

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 ...