Timothy Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, contends that targeted and effective efforts are needed to ...
To help generate the savings required by the House-approved budget, the House Ways and Means Committee voted on April 18 to eliminate the Social Services Block Grant ...
Myths about SNAP/Food Stamps “are being used as justification for dangerous policy changes and funding cuts that would make it harder for families struggling to ...
Politicians aren’t looking to curb spending by looking to billionaires like Warren Buffett, Wendy Fontaine says. Instead “[t]hey are looking to people ...
Because House Republicans included cuts to a provision that coordinates essential nutrition assistance with other safety net programs, 280,000 children would no ...
The greatest generation of America's last century survived the Great Depression, fought and defeated global tyranny, built the great American middle class, and so ...
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 ...
The term “financial crisis” has been heard a lot in recent years, whether in the context of the economically disastrous events following the collapse of ...
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; ...
The Senate held a much-publicized vote on the “Buffett Rule,” a basic measure of fairness that would ensure millionaires don’t pay a lower tax rate ...
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 ...
The House Republican budget was presented on March 20 by Chairman Paul Ryan. Here are some reactions and analyses from our friends in the field, explaining what ...
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 ...
Jodie Levin-Epstein reacts to a new report from Brookings that asserts that the lack of opportunity in 21st century America is largely driven by the failure of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Check out this awesome brand new infographic from the National Women's Law Center comparing tax cuts for millionaires to supports for children and families.
In the latest commentary for Spotlight, contributor Kristin S. Seefeldt discusses her recent study, which focuses on the experiences of single, African ...
