The harmful 2025 Republican reconciliation law will require most states starting in October 2027 to pay a portion of SNAP benefit costs for the first time in the ...

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

WIC's recurring, structured appointments create sustained touchpoints for identifying emerging health concerns throughout pregnancy and beyond.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO), members of Congress from both parties, and the courts have all agreed the ...

On November 3, voters in Washington State will decide whether to protect landmark legislation enacted in March that will ...

In May, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a proposed rule that would upend the federal grantmaking process by ...

Congress has passed a short-term funding measure to fund the government into December, but it still must pass full-year funding bills for fiscal year 2027. While the Senate has not yet introduced any ...

Everyone deserves affordable, safe energy to meet their everyday needs. But average electricity bills have risen close to 6 percent in the past 12 months. Some states made the sound choice of ...

On Tuesday, September 15, the Census Bureau will release its 2025 Current Population Survey data on poverty, income, and health insurance. Additional health insurance data from the Census Bureau’s ...

Census figures released yesterday show that the national poverty rate fell in 2025 both when using the official poverty measure and under an alternate Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), referred to ...

At a moment when the cuts enacted in last year’s harmful Republican reconciliation law have begun to take away food assistance and health coverage from millions of people, today’s Census data are a ...