Kentucky’s Woodford County Public Schools, which serves middle-income families in rural communities outside of Lexington, may need a short-term state loan to make payroll before its ...

The harmful Republican megabill, enacted on July 4, will dramatically raise costs and reduce food assistance for millions of people by cutting federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

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The Trump Administration has been peddling false and exaggerated claims about the harmful Republican megabill’s effects on the taxation of Social Security benefits, including in a blast email from the ...

MA plans are substantially overpaid compared to traditional Medicare. Much of these overpayments benefit the MA plans rather than their enrollees.

This guide is designed to help state and local policymakers and program officials identify opportunities under federal law to streamline the application and enrollment process by relying on ...

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 ...

A number of states are considering adopting policies to expand immigrants’ rights and opportunities to thrive, building on the many steps forward in 2021. Immigrants play a critical role in local ...

Policymakers and the public should understand that the 2017 Trump tax law was skewed to the rich, was expensive and eroded the U.S. revenue base, and failed to deliver promised economic benefits. A ...

See our latest report, with updated estimates, on the benefits of making the American Rescue Plan’s expansions to the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit permanent.

Most states provide less support per student for elementary and secondary schools – in some cases much less – than before the Great Recession.

A number of Republican members of Congress have introduced legislation over the past dozen years that would authorize Treasury to prioritize certain payments if the federal government reached the debt ...