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July 30, 2019 The changes to food assistance programs included in the major economic relief package the House is considering this week include $12 billion in key investments to mitigate extraordinarily high levels of hunger and hardship. [1] The major food assistance provisions in the relief bill would: Extend through September the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit increase in December’s COVID relief package, which would help millions of families...

Topics: End Notes [1] CBPP analysis of U.S. Census Bureau’s basic monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) public use microdata files. Figures are not seasonally adjusted. [2] U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Supplemental data measuring the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the labor market, Table 9, at https://www.bls.gov/cps/effects-of-the-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic.htm. [3] CBPP analysis of U.S. Census Bureau’s basic monthly CPS public use micro...

Share Dr. Philip A. Fisher, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Translational Neuroscience at the University of Oregon, is a national expert on how adverse experiences affect children’s development. Last April he launched the RAPID-EC (Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development-Early Childhood) survey to learn how families were faring during the pandemic. Every two weeks since then, Dr. Fisher and his team have surveyed 1,000 families with children under age 5. What...

Share Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for low-paid working adults not raising children in the home, as the COVID relief package before Congress would do on a temporary basis, would benefit hundreds of thousands of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) individuals nationwide, our new analysis shows. The EITC is a highly successful wage subsidy that’s earned bipartisan support over the years, but the current tax credit largely excludes adults who aren’t raising children (so-c...

Increase State Financial Aid and Target Students in Need About 74 percent of the $14.1 billion in grant aid that states awarded for the 2019 academic year was need-based (a slight decrease from the previous year), meaning it went to low-income students who struggle the most to pay for college. The other 26 percent was merit-based, meaning it was awarded to students who meet certain criteria — typically measured by high school GPA or college entry exam scores — regardless of household income...

So far in the current, pandemic-driven economic downturn, some states are following their playbook from the Great Recession of 2007-09 when they often closed large budget shortfalls with cuts to...

Roundup: Congressional Action on COVID Relief February 10, 2021, 5:19 pm | By CBPP Share Both the House and the Senate have passed a fiscal year 2021 budget resolution and will work in the coming weeks to pass urgently needed COVID-19 relief legislation. We’ve excerpted below CBPP’s analyses thus far on provisions of the proposed relief package, including those written this week as House committees prepared to consider their bills. We’ll update this list as we release additional pieces....

At least 14 states made higher education more affordable to immigrant students, such as by extending in-state tuition rates and financial aid regardless of immigration status. Some states improved school finance formulas to get more funding to high-poverty schools. For example, California adopted a new funding formula in 2013 that boosted districts’ aid for each student from a low-income family and each student learning English. These forward-looking policy gains, many of which were adopted y...

Both the House and the Senate have passed a fiscal year 2021 budget resolution and will work in the coming weeks to pass urgently needed COVID-19 relief legislation. We’ve excerpted below CBPP’s...

Erica Williams is Vice President for State Fiscal Policy at CBPP. In this role, she takes part in leading the organization and its 40-person State Fiscal Policy division and supports the development...