By selling out national parks and other public lands, the Trump administration is endangering some of America’s great travel ...

The House Republican tax and budget bill would make states pay more to administer food assistance while ensuring it serves ...

“SNAP is an excellent tool to combat recessions, but the House Republican plan weakens the program’s ability to respond to economic downturns and limits states’ flexibility to provide food assistance ...

House Republicans’ proposals would lead to 14 million people becoming uninsured, forcing hospitals and other health care ...

ESSER funds, provided through three federal COVID-19 relief bills in 2020 and 2021, were intended to help schools safely reopen and address the pandemic’s impact on students, educators, and ...

The folly of the Trump administration’s trade policy is that it harms the very people it claims to help. The great American historian Barbara Tuchman once described folly in government as the ...

A new Center for American Progress analysis shows that large shares of working women—both mothers and married women without cohabitating children—continue to be breadwinners for their families. Policy ...

The authors would like to thank Emily Gee, Bobby Kogan, Shannon Baker-Branstetter, Sean Casey, Ryan Mulholland, Kyle Ross, Natasha Murphy, Andrea Ducas, Lily Roberts, Alia Hidayat, Steve ...

Sweeping cuts to federal investments put critical government and community-based safety programs and initiatives at risk. A view of the U.S. Department of Justice on January 22, 2025, Washington ...

190 rural hospitals in 34 Medicaid expansion states are at immediate risk of closure. Slashing Medicaid could push them over the edge. More than 66 million Americans live in rural areas, according ...

Regional office closures come as part of mass layoffs—a stark reduction in force of an estimated 20,000 jobs—at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), less than a week after ...