This week at CBPP, we focused on state budgets and taxes, food assistance, health, poverty and inequality, and the federal budget.On state budgets and taxes, Wesley Tharpe and ...

Republican proposals Congress could consider this year would take away or reduce food assistance from tens of millions of ...

For millions of workers, their jobs don’t pay enough to feed their families and afford other basic needs. The Supplemental ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

This week at CBPP, we focused on the federal budget, health, immigration, climate change, food assistance, housing, and Social Security.