Housing is a basic human need, but millions of people in this country cannot afford a stable home. Rental assistance directly ...

This week at CBPP, we focused on income security, food assistance, and state budgets and taxes.On income security, Vicki Turetsky and Diana Azevedo-McCaffrey detailed how ...

States are finding themselves at the mercy of automatic tax cuts as the consequences of years-old tax policies take aim at state budgets. Budget writers and analysts in several states have begun ...

Key provisions of the 2017 Trump tax law are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025. Given the law’s fundamental problems — its high cost, skew toward high-income people, and failure to produce the ...

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Block grants are fixed pots of money that the federal government gives to states to provide benefits or services. Some policymakers call their block grant proposals "Opportunity Grants" or “merged ...

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The Center’s spring internship will be remote. Remote interns must be in the U.S. for the duration of the internship. Intern work hours are generally expected to be during core Eastern Time business ...

The Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) programs enable nearly 2 million people in 1.2 million households with low incomes to live in affordable homes by contracting with the private ...

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Sherman’s work focuses on family income trends, income support policies, and the causes and consequences of poverty. He has written extensively about the effectiveness of government poverty-reduction ...