CBPP Comprehensive Reports and Blog Posts

CBPP — 2024-09-10T10:15:00

The Census Bureau has released nationwide figures for poverty, income, and health insurance coverage in 2023 from its Current Population Survey. Additional health insurance data from the American Community Survey will follow September 12. We’ll be posting our analysis of the data here. Bookmark and visit this page for more. See our paper on  what to watch for in the data.

2024-09-09T09:57:07

Our “Unwinding Watch” highlights key developments as states resume determinations on people’s Medicaid eligibility. Previously, the pandemic-related “continuous coverage” requirement safeguarded this coverage for millions of people.

CBPP — 2024-09-06T15:33:08

This week at CBPP, we focused on the federal budget, health, food assistance, and poverty and inequality. On the federal budget, CBPP staff underscored how Project 2025 and policy proposals by Republican lawmakers would disinvest from people, communities, and the economy, increasing poverty and reducing opportunity. We also released an executive summary. On health, Allison Orris and Claire Heyison warned that Project 2025 and House Republican health coverage proposals would make health care more costly and leave millions of people uninsured. We also updated our resource tracking states’

Catlin Nchako — 2024-09-06T10:24:00

Food insecurity increased in 2023, from 12.8 percent in 2022 to 13.5 percent in 2023, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) latest food insecurity report finds. Food insecurity has risen two years in a row, reversing a downward trend; food insecurity rates had fallen to a two-decade low in 2021, when significant relief measures, such as expanded food assistance benefits and an expanded Child Tax Credit, were in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The rise in food hardship shows that Congress should protect and improve upon policies that help families afford a healthy diet. In

Arloc Sherman, Gideon Lukens — 2024-09-05T12:54:31

Interpreting this year’s poverty figures requires caution: a temporary quirk in the poverty thresholds may understate improvement in one poverty measure.

Ed Bolen — 2024-09-04T10:25:10

Each year, thousands of families participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) have their benefits stolen. Even though SNAP benefits are issued on debit-like cards, SNAP participants don’t have the opportunity for financial restitution the same way that debit cardholders do. As a result, households in every state too often lose critical food assistance and face agonizing decisions around buying groceries and paying for other basic needs. Congress should extend the current temporary SNAP benefit replacement policy to ensure that families whose benefits are stolen don’t

2015-06-06T00:00:00

The federal-state unemployment insurance (UI) system helps many people who have lost their jobs by temporarily replacing part of their wages. (See “ Policy Basics: Unemployment Insurance.”) Under certain circumstances, unemployed workers who exhaust their regular state-funded unemployment benefits before they can find work can receive additional weeks of benefits. Under the CARES Act responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, all states received access to federal funding to provide additional weeks of Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Assistance (PEUC) benefits to people who exhausted their regular

CBPP — 2024-09-03T13:00:26

Millions of people would face higher costs for health care, child care, and housing, and millions more would lose health coverage.

Allison Orris, Claire Heyison — 2024-09-03T13:00:20

This paper focuses on the three plans’ proposed changes to eligibility requirements, consumer protections, financing, and coverage generosity for Medicaid, ACA marketplace insurance, and other health insurance.

2024-09-03T13:00:12

Executive Summary Over the last several months, groups of House Republicans and the Heritage Foundation have released policy agendas that, taken together, would create a harsher country with higher poverty and less opportunity, where millions of people would face higher costs for health care, child care, and housing, and millions more would lose health coverage — all while wealthy households and corporations benefit from an unfair tax code that provides them with outsized tax breaks. These skewed priorities would exacerbate inequities in income, wealth, health, and hardship across lines of