Policymakers have made substantial progress in recent years in “making work pay” for low-income families with children by strengthening the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit. But low-income childless workers — that is, adults without children and non-custodial parents — receive little or nothing from the EITC. Read More »
Even though it is a self-sustaining program funded by workers and employers, Social Security has been under withering assault in recent years. Social Security Works! argues that expanding, rather than cutting, Social Security will benefit individual people and the United States as a whole. Read More »
Testifying at a House Agriculture Committee hearing this morning, CBPP President Robert Greenstein discussed SNAP’s track record of eliminating severe hunger and malnutrition in the United States, as well as its growth in response to economic conditions and need. Read More »
Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) is a core component of Social Security. It insures workers who have suffered a serious and long-lasting disability, providing modest but vital income to support them and their families when they are unable to work. Workers earn disability insurance protection by working and contributing to Social Security; as women’s labor force participation has increased, so has the importance of DI to women’s economic security. Read More »
Testifying at a House Agriculture Committee hearing this morning, CBPP President Robert Greenstein discussed SNAP’s track record of eliminating severe hunger and malnutrition in the United States, as well as its growth in response to economic conditions and need. Read More »
Policymakers have made substantial progress in recent years in “making work pay” for low-income families with children by strengthening the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit. But low-income childless workers — that is, adults without children and non-custodial parents — receive little or nothing from the EITC. Read More »
While the Great Recession technically ended in June 2009, many families, including those with children, continue to feel the effects of the United States’ most serious economic contraction since the Great Depression. As of 2013, 14.7 million children were in poverty, a significant increase from the 12.8 million children in poverty before the recession began. Read More »
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Latest Edition: February 9, 2015
Read articles from the February 9th special edition focusing on an analysis of President Obama’s budget request for FY2016, including sections on select departmental budget requests and taxes and revenues. Read More »
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