Hospitals’ and other providers’ uncompensated care costs have fallen significantly since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) major coverage provisions. But approved and proposed ...

Participation and spending in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps) continue to decline, reflecting the program’s responsiveness to economic conditions, which ...

The national recession has had such a devastating effect on state finances that states took in $87 billion less in tax revenue from October 2008 through September 2009 than they collected in the ...

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is the only source of federal income support targeted to families caring for children with disabilities, and it reaches only the lowest-income and most severely ...

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 Security faces a significant — though manageable — long-term funding shortfall, which policymakers should address primarily by increasing Social Security’s tax revenues. If policymakers elect ...

Three years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic began to take hold in the U.S., sending the economy into a downward spiral. The economy quickly shed more than 20 million jobs. Amid intense fear and hardship, ...

Increasingly, Medicare enrollees receive their benefits through a Medicare Advantage (MA) health plan offered by a private insurer rather than from traditional Medicare, which is a government-run, ...

Medicaid is the largest health insurer in the United States, at over 80 million enrollees. [2] Its numerous benefits to enrollees include greater likelihood of completing school, higher wages, better ...

A proposal to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) from Senator Sherrod Brown and Representative Ro Khanna, along with 52 House cosponsors, would advance what should be a leading tax-reform goal ...

The House Republican reconciliation legislation currently under consideration in the Energy & Commerce Committee would take away health coverage and leave at least 8.6 million people uninsured as it ...

Opportunity should be available to everyone no matter their race, color, or creed. The Administration’s agenda limits the opportunities for Black households to live in healthy and thriving communities ...