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

This week at CBPP, we focused on health, housing, the economy, food assistance, and the federal budget. On health, Allie Gardner explained how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

To create the federal rental assistance factsheets for the 50 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and the United States, CBPP analyzed survey data from the American Community Survey (ACS) ...

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 ...

New research finds that 1 in 3 people applying for SNAP benefits are denied not because they are ineligible, but because they don’t make it through the complex process.

During their 2026 legislative sessions, states responded to the massive federal Medicaid cuts in last year’s Republican reconciliation law in two major ways. Some states enacted changes that will ...

The harmful Republican reconciliation law enacted last July made unprecedented cuts to food assistance through SNAP, including a provision slashing federal funding for SNAP benefits and imposing these ...

U.S. families are grappling with increased costs for many necessities: groceries, housing, health care, utilities, gasoline, and more. Although Donald Trump pledged as President that he would improve ...

Statement of Kathleen Romig, Senior Fellow, on 2026 Social Security Trustees’ Report The 2026 annual report of the Social Security trustees released today shows a worsening outlook for the program’s ...

The Trump Administration’s final rule implementing the new Medicaid work requirement makes major, last-minute policy shifts that will likely increase the number of people who are denied or lose health ...

Every child should have access to a quality K-12 education that prepares them for long-term opportunities and success. But lawmakers in some states have jeopardized equitable access to education by ...

In fiscal year 2025, the federal government spent $7.0 trillion on the services it provides, such as national defense, health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security benefits for ...