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Trump and DOGE Claim Power to Falsely List Living Persons as Dead in Social Security Records
The Trump Administration has made a shocking claim: that it can declare living people dead to cut off their access to ...
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Amid Rising Recession Risks and Tariff Price Hikes, House Republicans Advance Budget Plan That Would Raise Costs for Millions of Families
The budget plan that House Republicans passed today paves the way to take Medicaid health coverage and food assistance ...
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Research Note: Closing Medicaid Coverage Gap Would Provide Over 1.5 Million Uninsured Adults Path to Affordable Health Coverage
The Affordable Care Act expanded access to affordable, comprehensive health coverage for millions of people and has driven ...
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On Tax Day, Reject DOGE-Led Cuts to the IRS Workforce and Budget
The “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) and the second Trump Administration have led a myriad of attacks on the IRS, ...
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TANF’s Non-Recurrent Short-Term Benefits Can Provide Necessary Assistance to Meet Families’ Immediate Needs
A long-time allowable spending category in TANF enables states to provide short-term assistance to families experiencing a ...
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Shifting Federal Costs for Food Assistance, Health Care, Other Priorities to States Would Cause Widespread Harm
House and Senate Republicans are working overtime to rush through a federal budget plan that would cut off large portions of federal funding for food assistance, health care, and other vital ...
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AFDC and TANF Caseload and Poverty Data
We use the TANF-to-poverty ratio (TPR) to examine changes over time in access to TANF by families experiencing poverty. We ...
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In Case You Missed It.
This week at CBPP, we focused on the federal budget, Social Security, the economy, federal taxes, state budgets and taxes, and health.On the federal budget, we released a ...