The House Agriculture Committee found nearly all of its savings ($33.2 billion over 10 years) from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food ...
Bob Greenstein of CBPP testifies at a House hearing on the safety net on the functioning of the safety net as a whole; a more intensive focus on Medicaid and SNAP; ...
A report released reveals that an estimated 8 million children will be directly impacted by the mortgage crisis. The report, The Ongoing Impact of Foreclosures on ...
Poor children in the United States start school at a disadvantage in terms of their early skills, behaviors, and health. Fewer than half (48 percent) of poor children ...
Senator Dick Durbin held a hearing on in March 2012 to highlight America’s education lending problem and advocate his proposed legislation, the Fairness for ...
Teaching kids about money management is crucial for helping them grow up successfully, but talking about money can also be difficult for parents. How do you teach ...
To help educate policymakers and advocates about what it’s like to start life without a home, ZERO TO THREE has produced a short video with highlights from a ...
This Campaign, run by the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities, is dedicated to promoting the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, and free tax filing ...
Perhaps no law in the past generation has drawn more praise than the drive to “end welfare as we know it,” which joined the late-’90s economic boom ...
At a White House forum on women and the economy in April 2012, President Obama addressed concerns of equal pay for equal work, affordable heath care for the fully ...
The successful bipartisan effort over the last two decades to reduce state income taxes on working-poor families has stalled and is in danger of reversing. No ...
The report provides first-time analyses of how federal and state governments allocate public funds to children based on their families' incomes, and concludes ...
"Recently, we undertook what we understand is the first major effort to understand the size of the private student loan market. This market went through the same ...
The importance of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in combating poverty in our country by alleviating hunger was driven home anew during the Great ...
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 share of the nation’s total income going to the top 1 percent of households, which fell in the financial crisis and Great Recession, rose in 2010, the first ...
