The harmful Republican megabill, enacted on July 4, will dramatically raise costs and reduce food assistance for millions of people by cutting federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

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As the name suggests, the Impoundment Control Act (ICA) helped reinforce Congress’s control over the executive branch’s spending of funds and provided an explicit pathway for the President ...

Figure 3 shows income inequality after taking into account various taxes and cash and near-cash transfers, using the OECD data for 2010 or the latest available year. Taking these policies into account ...

This guide is designed to help state and local policymakers and program officials identify opportunities under federal law to streamline the application and enrollment process by relying on ...

In the past few months, state lawmakers have expanded and created a record number of school voucher programs with little to no limits on eligibility. This will deplete available state revenues for ...

Social Security Needs Shoring Up but Will Not Go “Bankrupt” 2035 is the “headline date” in the trustees’ report because that is when the combined Social Security trust fund reserves — that is, the ...

See our latest report, with updated estimates, on the benefits of making the American Rescue Plan’s expansions to the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit permanent.

There is pressure on Congress from business interests to delay a corporate tax increase; Congress should not consider any business tax breaks without also expanding the Child Tax Credit.

A number of Republican members of Congress have introduced legislation over the past dozen years that would authorize Treasury to prioritize certain payments if the federal government reached the debt ...