In a nation as wealthy as ours, everyone should be able to afford to meet their basic needs – they should be able to buy ...

The health bill House Republicans are preparing to bring to the floor this week not only fails to prevent imminent premium spikes for more than 20 million people in marketplace plans, but would raise ...

Housing is a basic need for all people — yet across the country, over 22.6 million renter households are spending more than 30 percent of their income on housing — the widely considered threshold of ...

This is our final edition of In Case You Missed It for 2025. CBPP wishes you restful and happy holidays! This week at CBPP, we focused on health, the federal budget and federal taxes, and housing.

As Congress continues to negotiate the next set of funding bills before the upcoming deadline at the end of January, policymakers must ensure sufficient and timely funding for critical housing and ...

The Child Tax Credit expansion drove child poverty sharply downward in 2021. Combined with other relief efforts, the expansion helped lower child poverty by more than 40 percent between 2020 and 2021, ...

Instead of changing course and prioritizing people with low and moderate incomes as Republicans’ campaign rhetoric about supporting hard-pressed working families suggested, the new law again gives ...

Congressional Republicans could have followed through on their promises to help families afford the basics by extending the premium tax credit enhancements to help them enroll in affordable, ...