In a nation as wealthy as ours, everyone should be able to afford to meet their basic needs – they should be able to buy enough food to feed their families, have a safe and affordable place to live, ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

Throughout President Trump’s second term, the Administration has aggressively abused its authority over federal personnel to impose mass layoffs through so-called “reductions in force” (RIFs), ...

Enhancements to premium tax credits, enacted in the American Rescue Plan and extended by the Inflation Reduction Act, are helping more than 20 million people afford health coverage in the Affordable ...

The Trump Administration recently claimed that SNAP benefits are not available for November 2025 because SNAP’s “contingency funds are not legally available to cover regular benefits.” [1] This stands ...

The Trump Administration has taken many steps to undermine the bipartisan deal on fiscal year 2025 funding since the President signed it into law in March, including through illegal funding freezes, ...

33.6 million adults and 13.8 million children — including nearly 2 million children under 3 years old — lived in food-insecure households in 2023. Food is an essential human need, and even more so for ...

Fiscal year 2026 begins in less than a month, on October 1. Congress routinely finalizes funding levels for the roughly one-quarter of the federal budget funded by annual appropriations only after the ...

The Trump Administration is preparing to propose a rule to cut Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits and strip eligibility for hundreds of thousands of low-income older people and severely ...

The State Landscape is a comprehensive set of eligibility criteria, waivers, operations metrics, and other data collected by various entities and available across the 50 states and Washington, D.C.