This guide illustrates a series of meaningful, manageable and moveable administrative and legislative changes that policymakers can pursue, despite tight budget ...
As we approach the April 17 deadline for filing our federal taxes, many people probably can’t help wonder what their tax dollars are buying these days. ...
The recently-passed House Republican budget plan asks low-income and middle-class Americans to shoulder the entire burden of deficit reduction while simultaneously ...
The report provides first-time analyses of how federal and state governments allocate public funds to children based on their families' incomes, and concludes ...
With 23.5 million Americans currently unemployed or underemployed, the number one job for Congress and the President remains putting them back to work. NELP just ...
On March 20, 2012, Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) unveiled the House Republican budget proposal for 2013. Like the Republican budget proposal for 2012, it ...
The beginning of 2012 has been marked by several key developments that could have important ramifications for federal and state education policy. The House Education ...
he President's fiscal year 2013 budget request for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is at least $1.7 billion below the amount needed to fully ...
Brookings Fellow Elisabeth Jacobs says that the next Presidential administration faces the task not only of nurturing a fragile economic recovery, but also of ...
The employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) edged up to 58.6 percent in February, its highest level since May of 2010, as the Labor Department reported that employers ...
Another good employment report today suggested that the labor market is continuing to improve. Employer payrolls increased by 227,000 in February and by an average of ...
U.S. state and local governments reduced their debts last year for the first time since 1996 as political aversion to borrowing cut supply of municipal bonds and ...
Education cut-backs are likely to worsen in the short run. This makes it imperative for policy makers to reverse trends toward lopsided cutbacks that decimate efforts ...
The Center on Budget Policy and Priorities' newly updated survey of state budget shortfalls suggests that the shortfalls for states this year are smaller than ...
This report, based on structured discussions with leading Medicaid directors in November 2011 and survey questions emailed to all 50 states and DC in December 2011 ...
The Center on Budget Policy and Priorities' LaDonna Pavetti reports that Congress continued unraveling its welfare reform deal with the states when it failed to ...
The report discusses the important budget events of 2011. It begins with the House Republican budget and the president's response. The very different approaches ...
President Obama’s budget protects and proposes to strengthen the nation’s nutrition safety net for the many Americans who continue to struggle with ...
