The long-term outlook for the Social Security trust funds has declined slightly, the latest annual report from the program’s ...

Housing is a basic human need, and no one should be turned away from resources and services that help them obtain stable, affordable housing because of their identity. The Fair Housing Act of 1968, ...

Following a series of middle-of-the-night backroom deals, and less than an hour after the final language was unveiled, Senate ...

Revised legislation released June 25 by Senate Agriculture Committee Chair John Boozman would slightly modify several of the ...

The State Landscape is a comprehensive set of eligibility criteria, waivers, operations metrics, and other data collected by ...

The Senate Finance Committee released a bill that would take significant federal funds away from states with certain programs ...

Our tax code works best when it adequately funds the public services that make our society better without putting financial ...

Missouri legislators in May approved an alarming tax policy change: eliminating the state income tax on capital gains, a first-of-its-kind move that will deliver enormous gains to wealthy ...

The Senate is barreling toward a vote on a still-not-finished bill that would take away health coverage and food assistance from millions of people who need it, raise families’ costs, and make a large ...

Funding for the Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) program is expected to start running out later this year due to unexpectedly ...

The Social Security Administration will have fewer and less experienced staff on the front lines serving the public with ...

This week at CBPP, we focused on food assistance, health, the federal budget and taxes, immigration, housing, Social Security, state budgets and taxes, and the economy. On ...