A proposal by the Trump Administration to cut off rental assistance after two years even if participants still can’t afford ...

President Trump’s proposal to rescind $9.4 billion in previously approved spending, which the Senate is expected to vote on ...

President Trump’s proposal to rescind $9.4 billion in previously approved spending, which the Senate is expected to vote on this week, is a bad idea for several reasons, as noted in a recent ...

House Republicans’ budget reconciliation legislation would cut assistance that helps children in families with low incomes get enough to eat, see a doctor when they are sick, and in other ways meet ...

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Figure 3 shows income inequality after taking into account various taxes and cash and near-cash transfers, using the OECD data for 2010 or the latest available year. Taking these policies into account ...

Some conservative critics of federal social programs, including leading presidential candidates, are sounding an alarm that the United States is rapidly becoming an “entitlement society” in which ...

An unprecedented $190 billion federal investment in education during the COVID-19 pandemic improved academic achievement and prevented potentially catastrophic social and educational losses for many ...

Supplemental Security Income is the only source of federal income support targeted to families caring for children with disabilities, and it reaches only the lowest-income and most severely impaired ...

A proposal the Trump Administration is considering to use a lower inflation measure to calculate annual adjustments to the federal poverty line [1] ultimately would cut billions of dollars from ...