Recent federal budget proposals would shift significant costs, explicitly or implicitly, to states and localities by ...

This technical note explains how we adjust the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) ten-year budget baseline issued in January 2025 to create our CBPP baseline, which we use in our analyses of ...

Many millions of people would have a harder time affording and accessing health care under Republican proposals that Congress ...

Study participants in their 20s spent slightly less time at work, but a majority of the reduced work time was offset by more ...

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) announced today the hiring of two exceptional leaders: Cara Brumfield as ...

The leak confirms the House Republican agenda: massive cuts that take away or cut health coverage, food assistance, income ...

The Biden-Harris Administration finalized two important rules to make it easier for eligible people — primarily children, ...

Treasury announced final rules for the Clean Electricity Investment and Production Tax Credits, along with the expansion of ...

In fiscal year 2024, the federal government spent $6.9 trillion, amounting to 24 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), according to the June 2024 estimates of the Congressional Budget ...

Everyone, regardless of income, needs health care to survive and thrive, and most Americans agree that health care is a fundamental right. [1] Yet over the past two years, legislators in more than a ...

Block grants are fixed pots of money that the federal government gives to states to provide benefits or services. Some policymakers call their block grant proposals "Opportunity Grants" or “merged ...

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