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Congressional Delay of SNAP Cost Shift Urgently Needed to Protect Food Assistance for Low-Income Families

The Republican megabill enacted in July will require most states to pay a share of SNAP food benefit costs — for many states, ...
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State and Local Leaders Should Sustain and Expand Investments in Housing Affordability and Stability in Their Budgets

Housing is a basic need for all people — yet across the country, over 22.6 million renter households are spending more than 30 percent of their income on housing — the widely considered threshold of ...
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House Republican Health Care Bill Fails to Address Marketplace Affordability

The health bill House Republicans are preparing to bring to the floor this week not only fails to prevent imminent premium spikes for more than 20 million people in marketplace plans, but would raise ...
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Trump Plan to End Free ‘Direct File’ Program and Rely on For-Profit Tax Preparers Is a Mistake

The Trump Administration announced it is ending the IRS’s free tax filing program, Direct File, even though independent groups deemed it a success and users across the political spectrum rated their ...
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Treasury Should Reject Lobbying Efforts to Further Weaken Corporate Minimum Tax

Industry groups are lobbying the Treasury Department to create a special exemption from the corporate minimum tax — enacted to ensure that corporations pay at least a minimum tax rate on their profits ...
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Trump Administration’s Legally Dubious Misuse of Social Security Data Risks Disenfranchising Eligible Voters

Friday, December 12 is the deadline for public comments on a policy the Trump Administration secretly adopted in May, giving the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) access to personal data from the ...