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May 18, 2020 COVID-19 relief legislation that House committees are considering includes several vital provisions that would make comprehensive coverage more affordable and accessible for millions of people. The legislation would enhance premium tax credits available through the health insurance marketplaces for two years, boost financial incentives for additional states to rapidly expand Medicaid, and enact other proposals to improve access to health coverage during the ...

The sizeable revenue shortfalls and added costs that many states, localities, tribal nations, and territories face due to COVID-19 call for added federal aid that’s temporary but significant.

April 5, 2021 The legislation that the House Financial Services Committee will consider this week to meet its reconciliation instructions under the House budget resolution includes critical housing assistance for millions of people who are struggling to pay their rent and avoid eviction, as well as badly needed resources to help communities address homelessness during the pandemic. The committee should quickly approve these measures, and the full House and Senate...

Image Ann Oliva is a Visiting Senior Fellow with the Housing team. Prior to joining the Center, she was the Senior Policy Advisor at the Corporation for Supportive Housing. From 2007 to 2017 Oliva was a career federal official at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), most recently overseeing the Department’s multi-billion dollar homelessness and HIV/AIDS housing portfolio as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs. She also worked as Director of Programs at the Comm...

Image Douglas Rice is a Senior Fellow on the Center’s Housing Policy team. He is the author of many influential analyses of budget and spending issues in the Housing Choice Voucher Program and other low-income housing assistance programs. His work also explores ways to make housing programs more effective, such as by expanding families’ housing options in communities with quality schools and other opportunities. He speaks frequently before nonprofit and industry groups, and has been quoted ...

Victoria Jackson is a Senior Policy Analyst with the State Fiscal Policy team, focusing on K-12 and higher education. Prior to joining CBPP, Jackson worked as a Senior Policy Analyst for Higher...

Sherman’s work focuses on family income trends, income support policies, and the causes and consequences of poverty.  He has written extensively about the effectiveness of government...

These provisions would result in historic reductions of child poverty and provide timely income support for millions of people, including millions of essential workers.

Image Nick Johnson serves as Senior Vice President for State Fiscal Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington, D.C-based research and policy institute.  He directs the Center’s State Fiscal Policy division, which works to advance equity, accountability, and economic opportunity through stronger state budget and tax policies. Over his more than 20-year career as a researcher at the Center, Johnson has written extensively on a range of state fiscal policy issues. He al...

Deputy Director of Federal Tax Policy Kris Cox is Deputy Director of Federal Tax Policy with the Centers Federal Fiscal Policy division. She previously provided management and research oversight to country teams across West, East, and Southern Africa as a Regional Director for Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA). Prior to that she opened IPAs office in Rwanda, where she spent over three years managing randomized controlled trials to evaluate the impact of social programs designed to assist the...