The Trump Administration has been engaging in a wholesale attack on Congress’s spending power by refusing to provide legally ...

Wyoming lawmakers enacted a sweeping 25 percent property tax cut this year for homes valued up to $1 million. But the legislation passed without any plan to replace the critical funding it will ...

The fiscal year 2026 Agriculture appropriations bill recently approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee includes full funding for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is overwhelming its local offices by forcing millions more people to seek in-person ...

Funding for programs structured as block grants tends to shrink significantly over time, an investigation of several decades ...

No one should be forced to choose between taking care of their health or paying for other basic needs, like food or utilities ...

A proposal by the Trump Administration to cut off rental assistance after two years even if participants still can’t afford ...

Hardship in 2020 and 2021 would have been far worse without extraordinary steps taken by the federal government, states, and localities to respond to the pandemic and its economic fallout.

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), enacted in 1996, replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), which provided cash assistance to families with children experiencing poverty.

Policymakers and the public should understand that the 2017 Trump tax law was skewed to the rich, was expensive and eroded the U.S. revenue base, and failed to deliver promised economic benefits. A ...

Some conservative critics of federal social programs, including leading presidential candidates, are sounding an alarm that the United States is rapidly becoming an “entitlement society” in which ...

A proposal the Trump Administration is considering to use a lower inflation measure to calculate annual adjustments to the federal poverty line [1] ultimately would cut billions of dollars from ...