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Wed, 23 May 2012 16:00:07 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Off the Charts Blog Post: Kansas' Big and Damaging Tax Cut http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Tue, 22 May 2012 11:09:18 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Off the Charts Blog Post: After Welfare Reform, the Poorest Families Had More Trouble Paying Bills http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Tue, 22 May 2012 14:41:14 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Senate Funding Bill Improves on President's Budget Request for Rental Assistance The Senate Committee on Appropriations has approved funding legislation for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that improves upon President Obama's budget request for fiscal year 2013 in several ways, including: Providing $17.5 billion for the renewal of Housing Choice Vouchers, $250 million above the Administration's request and the 2012 funding level.[1] The Senate bill thereby takes a big step toward filling a major gap in the Administration's request, … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/0_jDOwsEJqQ/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3782 Tue, 22 May 2012 11:08:08 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3782 Off the Charts Blog Post: The House Considers Food Stamps and Taxes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:56:40 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Off the Charts Blog Post: Myths on Spending, Debt, and Taxes Fuel Ryan Vision http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:22:38 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Blog Post: Low-Income Programs Would Bear the Brunt of Ryan Cuts http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/TVi9UX0i5Vo/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3725 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:43:14 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3725 Off the Charts Blog Post: President's Budget Would Hike Rents on Poorest Households http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:46:53 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 President's Proposal to Raise Rents on some of the Nation's Poorest Households Would Cause Serious Hardship The President’s budget proposes to raise the rents charged to more than 500,000 of the nation’s poorest families. It would do this by raising to $75 a month the “minimum rent” charged to the poorest families in the rental assistance programs that the Department of Housing and Urban Development administers and eliminating state and local housing agencies’ discretion to set the minimum rent below that level. Half a million families with incomes … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/G8xVwbAAU8g/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3706 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:49:48 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3706 Off the Charts Blog Post: President's Budget Falls Short on Renewing Housing Assistance http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:16:37 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 President's Budget Not Sufficient to Renew Rental Assistance Fully for Low-Income Households Overview The President's fiscal year 2013 budget request for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is at least $1.7 billion below the amount needed to fully renew rental assistance provided this year under HUD's three major rental assistance programs for low-income households: the Housing Choice voucher, public housing, and Section 8 project-based rental assistance (PBRA) programs. Together, these programs assist approximately 4.5 million low-income families, more than half of … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/Q7qVCqbk4Xs/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3701 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:05:49 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3701 Off the Charts Blog Post: Under $2 a Day in America, Part 3 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:29:14 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Off the Charts Blog Post: Higher Rents for Poorest Housing Recipients a Bad Idea http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:54:30 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 IP Memo: Preliminary Analysis of the HUD FY 2013 Budget Request for Major Rental Assistance Programs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/2BoUB6gXgaA/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3685 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:55:10 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3685 HUD Rental Assistance in Rural and Urban Areas Fact Sheet http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/5DIQ_HSU5kU/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3679 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:37:48 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3679 Off the Charts Blog Post: The False Claim That State Income Taxes Impede Growth http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:35:02 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Contrary to "Entitlement Society" Rhetoric, Over Nine-Tenths of Entitlement Benefits Go to Elderly, Disabled, or Working Households Some conservative critics of federal social programs, including leading presidential candidates, are sounding an alarm that the United States is rapidly becoming an “entitlement society” in which social programs are undermining the work ethic and creating a large class of Americans who prefer to depend on government benefits rather than work. A new CBPP analysis of budget and Census data, however, shows that more than 90 percent of the benefit dollars that entitlement and … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/Ncpi1yp1lgs/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3677 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:54:07 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3677 Off the Charts Blog Post: Debunking the “Entitlement Society” Myth http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:55:26 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Contrary To "Entitlement Society" Rhetoric, Over Nine-Tenths of Entitlement Benefits Go to Elderly, Disabled, or Working Households Some conservative critics of federal social programs, including leading presidential candidates, are sounding an alarm that the United States is rapidly becoming an “entitlement society” in which social programs are undermining the work ethic and creating a large class of Americans who prefer to depend on government benefits rather than work. A new CBPP analysis of budget and Census data, however, shows that more than 90 percent of the benefit dollars that entitlement and … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/Ncpi1yp1lgs/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3677 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:57:34 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3677 Off the Charts Blog Post: Housing Block Grant Proposal Would Likely Pave the Way for Deep Cuts http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:29:26 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Off the Charts Blog Post: Romney's Wrong: Federal Low-Income Program Dollars Go Overwhelmingly to Beneficiaries http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:25:23 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Romney's Charge That Most Federal Low-Income Spending Goes for "Overhead" and "Bureaucrats" Is False Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has endorsed a proposal to eliminate major federal assistance programs for low-income Americans and turn them over to the states, often with deep funding cuts. But the rationale he offered for doing so in this past Sunday’s “Meet the Press” debate — that the federal bureaucracy eats up most of the money Congress provides for these programs, and little actually reaches people in need — is simply false. At least … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/5hLOdbtkj-M/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3655 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:18:37 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3655 Off the Charts Blog Post: Congress Should Start Minding the Tax Gap http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:23:47 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Proposal to Greatly Expand “Moving To Work” Initiative Risks Deep Cuts in Housing Assistance Over Time Overview A recent proposal from Representative Gary Miller (R-CA) to permit an unlimited expansion of the Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration, which now exempts 35 housing agencies from nearly all federal housing laws and regulations so they can experiment with alternative ways of administering low-income housing aid, risks deep cuts to housing assistance over time. The proposal could lead a very large share of the nation’s 3,900 state and local housing agencies to convert … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/Ro_n8QoTack/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3653 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:58:01 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3653 Off the Charts Blog Post: Long and Uncertain Recovery for State Budgets http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:39:11 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Off the Charts Blog Post: In Case You Missed It http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-Housing/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:47:18 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184