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 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 ...

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 ...

The Impoundment Control Act does not allow deferrals for policy reasons, including any policy objections the Administration may have to legally required spending.

The harmful Republican megabill, enacted through budget reconciliation on July 4, imposes substantial new costs on state and local governments that will be hard for them to shoulder even when times ...

The Republicans’ harmful megabill, enacted through budget reconciliation on July 4, 2025, will raise costs for families and take away health coverage, food assistance, and other essentials from people ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is a nonpartisan research and policy institute that pursues federal and state policies designed both to reduce poverty and inequality and to restore ...

Even as the United States faces its largest surge in COVID cases, it lacks a key policy for public health and economic security: paid leave. The U.S. has long been an outlier among similarly wealthy ...