State budgets are recovering, but have not
returned to pre-recession levels of 2008, according to the biannual report, The Fiscal Survey of States,
released ...
A growing number of strategists and pundits say President Obama needs to clarify his message about the economy and communicate a clear plan for improvement to the ...
When you don’t like a program, the best way to
gin up opposition is to say it doesn’t work. As Medicaid becomes a more
prominent political football in the ...
USA Today reports that about a dozen states are
starting a new budget year by reducing payments to doctors, hospitals and other
health care providers that treat the ...
A Government Accountability Office report finds that, although most
physicians still accept some new Medicaid or Children's Health Insurance
Program ...
Some proponents of converting Medicaid to a block grant have attributed
the success of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in
extending coverage to ...
Partisan gridlock is making decisions difficult to come to in the federal government. However, in several other
states where Democrats and Republicans shared ...
An Obama Administration proposal that’s on the table for budget
negotiators would reduce federal Medicaid expenditures by reducing the
federal share of ...
Obama administration officials have advanced a significant amount
of cuts from Medicare and Medicaid in the debt ceiling talks — saying
the money could come ...
Families USA says federal Medicaid cuts
would harm families. They would also have a significant and harmful effect on
state economies struggling to rebound. ...
States have enacted deep cuts in education, health care, and other important public services in their budgets for fiscal year 2012 (which begins July 1 in most ...
In a continued unraveling of the deal that
Congress made with the states in enacting the 1996 welfare reform law, federal
Supplemental Grants provided every year ...
At a critical juncture in the deficit reduction talks, the leaders of
prominent national religious, civil rights, charitable, economic
research, and low-income ...
Deborah Weinstein, executive director of the Coalition on Human Needs, argues that there is a better way to cut the deficit than drastically reducing the funding of ...
CBPP Senior Fellow Jared Bernstein Testifies in a hearing on "stories from the Kitchen Table: How MIddle Class Families are Struggling to Make Ends Meet."
On June 12, 2011 hundreds of students and approximately 50 community
members stood together in solidarity protesting, Representative John
Boehner, who was picked to ...
In this Kaiser Health News feature, PBS Newshour's David Chalian talks with Jackie Judd about the latest developments in the budget negotiations being led by Vice ...
