No one should be forced to choose between taking care of their health or paying for other basic needs, like food or utilities ...

Funding for programs structured as block grants tends to shrink significantly over time, an investigation of several decades ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is overwhelming its local offices by forcing millions more people to seek in-person service while cutting thousands of staff who provide that help.

A proposal by the Trump Administration to cut off rental assistance after two years even if participants still can’t afford ...

House Republicans’ budget reconciliation legislation would cut assistance that helps children in families with low incomes get enough to eat, see a doctor when they are sick, and in other ways meet ...

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President Trump’s proposal to rescind $9.4 billion in previously approved spending, which the Senate is expected to vote on ...

President Trump’s proposal to rescind $9.4 billion in previously approved spending, which the Senate is expected to vote on this week, is a bad idea for several reasons, as noted in a recent ...

Figure 3 shows income inequality after taking into account various taxes and cash and near-cash transfers, using the OECD data for 2010 or the latest available year. Taking these policies into account ...

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 ...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) permits states to expand Medicaid coverage to adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the poverty level. States that have adopted the Medicaid expansion have ...