The number of people receiving SNAP food assistance has declined sharply in recent months, even though there is no sign that the decline is due primarily to an improving economy.

Gulf officials say they are ready for storm but concerns raised about restructured agency’s ability to respond effectively

Isaias is forecast to make landfall late Friday or early Saturday. It has been two years since a hurricane struck the mainland United States.

SNAP participation nationwide fell by roughly 5 million people (12 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and May 2026, based on the latest month of data.

At a moment when the cuts enacted in last year’s harmful Republican reconciliation law have begun...

On Tuesday, September 15, the Census Bureau will release its 2025 Current Population Survey data on poverty, income, and health insurance. Additional health insurance data from the Census Bureau’s Ame...

Only individuals who have one of a narrow list of immigration statuses defined as “qualified” will remain eligible.

by Beth Jarosz, Jae June Lee, and Chris Dick On June 4, 2026 the Department of Commerce issued a new order “Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products”…

Next Tuesday, the Census Bureau will release 2025 data on household income, poverty, and health insurance. Median income could rise thanks to growth in inflation-adjusted earnings in 2025, but a key m...

The harmful 2025 Republican reconciliation law takes away access to public benefit programs for certain people granted humanitarian-related immigration status.

SNAP participation nationwide fell by more than 4.5 million people (nearly 11 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and April 2026, based on the latest month of data.

Recent policies from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the Medicaid work requirement and approaches states use to finance their Medicaid programs, pay their providers, and innovate...

Federal statistical agencies face increasingly overt politicization by the Trump Administration on top of chronic underinvestment, uncertainty, and recent and proposed budget cuts, all of which threat...

The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...

A proposed rule would radically transform how grant award decisions are made, allowing them to be based on purely political calculations — including who receives funds, what is required of grantees, a...

The Child Tax Credit helps make raising children more affordable, and its full value should be available to families with lower incomes.

As a global leader in public health & health promotion, CDC is the agency Americans trust with their lives. In addition to our everyday work, each CDC employee has a role in supporting public health e...

"The decisions are devastating for our clients, and for those of us who accompany vulnerable immigrants through the legal system," said Anna Gallagher, CLINIC's executive director. "As Catholics, we b...

Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Poverty researchers focus on whether interventions relieve material hardships and the stresses of financial insecurity. Although these are essential outcomes, a narrow focus on them can limit the eva...

The success of other countries shows these programs can work in the United States.

Programs in the United States aimed at improving maternal and infant health vary in effectiveness in reaching eligible participants. Administrative burdens such as learning, psychological, and complia...