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 ...

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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 ...

State policymakers should prioritize rental assistance investments, not only to protect current recipients and but also to expand access to more households. Investing in these programs strengthens ...

Affordable housing is a basic human need and rental assistance is proven to make housing more affordable. But a House committee recently passed a bill that could result in about 411,000 fewer people ...

Update: On July 31, the Social Security Administration withdrew this proposal in order to make modifications. SSA officials told reporters that the use of a PIN for these functions will be “entirely ...

No one should be forced to choose between taking care of their health or paying for other basic needs, like food or utilities. But if enhancements to the premium tax credits (PTCs) expire at the end ...

The Trump Administration is preparing to propose a rule to cut Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits and strip eligibility for hundreds of thousands of low-income older people and severely ...

As the name suggests, the Impoundment Control Act (ICA) helped reinforce Congress’s control over the executive branch’s spending of funds and provided an explicit pathway for the President to request ...

Everyone needs and should have a place they can call home. Yet housing is unaffordable for more people than ever in the United States, including most low-income renters. For people with the lowest ...

Our communities are safer when each person has a stable place to call home. Policies that improve access to housing assistance together with robust, voluntary services have been shown to both prevent ...

A “pocket rescission” involves transmitting a rescission request so late in the fiscal year that the funds would expire before Congress acts. No such loophole exists. The Administration’s “pocket ...