The Trump Administration and Republican majorities in both houses of Congress are advancing a three-pronged policy agenda ...

As the name suggests, the Impoundment Control Act (ICA) helped reinforce Congress’s control over the executive branch’s ...

The average annual savings from these benefit cuts would barely pay for a single day of the massive tax cuts for the wealthy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rental assistance is a key policy intervention that state policymakers should add to their toolbox to address housing affordability at scale.

Key FindingsRental assistance increases housing stability and reduces homelessnessState policymakers should fund rental ...

The House Republican reconciliation bill imposes substantial new costs on state and local governments that would be hard for them to shoulder even when times are good, let alone now with their ...

It is important to step back and consider which priorities the bill will reflect — whether it will prioritize tax policies that help families meet basic needs, require corporations and the wealthy to ...

The congressional Republican budget paves the way for deeply damaging changes to Medicaid that would reduce access to health care, either directly or indirectly, for many of the more than 70 million ...

April 24, 2025: The Social Security Administration reversed its new policy on telephone applications and will continue to allow most applicants to apply by phone. However, starting in April, ...

Requiring states to pay even a modest portion of SNAP benefits would radically change the program’s funding structure, abandoning the long-standing national commitment to provide low-income households ...