The Senate and House appropriations committees took sharply different approaches to funding rental assistance programs for ...

This week at CBPP, we focused on food assistance, climate change, poverty and inequality, and Social Security. Note we’ll have minimal to no postings the next two weeks. Have a pleasant ...

Two years after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the law is driving transformation across a range of climate priorities. States have a critical role to play to ensure that the ...

The five U.S. Territories — Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands — are excluded from most federal statistical products, a recent report from the ...

In May, the House Agriculture Committee approved a farm bill proposal authored by Chair Glenn “GT” Thompson that would reauthorize and modify the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...

Nationally, and in states, we face big decisions in the years ahead that will determine whether we are building toward a future that works for all of us. Reflecting on who CBPP has become, we are ...

Roughly 15.7 million workers, or about 10 percent of all workers, are in households where someone participated in SNAP in the ...

This toolkit provides resources for advocates and state agencies seeking to streamline the eligibility verification process for Medicaid and SNAP. Federal law requires the state and county agencies ...