In a historic step forward for Colorado, a group of Democratic lawmakers introduced House Joint Resolution 1023 on March 31 calling for the legislature to file a lawsuit challenging ...

Republicans in Congress are moving forward with a budget plan that would cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid.

The Trump Administration has made a shocking claim: that it can declare living people dead to cut off their access to ...

This week at CBPP, we focused on the federal budget, Social Security, the economy, federal taxes, state budgets and taxes, and health.On the federal budget, we released a ...

We use the TANF-to-poverty ratio (TPR) to examine changes over time in access to TANF by families experiencing poverty. We ...

Source: CBPP analysis of AFDC and TANF caseload data collected from the Department of Health and Human Services and (since 2006) data collected by CBPP from state agencies and poverty data from the ...

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, popularly known as WIC, provides nutritious foods, counseling on healthy eating, breastfeeding support, and health care ...

The budget plan that House Republicans passed today paves the way to take Medicaid health coverage and food assistance through SNAP away from millions of people, to partially pay for huge tax ...

A long-time allowable spending category in TANF enables states to provide short-term assistance to families experiencing a ...

The Affordable Care Act expanded access to affordable, comprehensive health coverage for millions of people and has driven ...