In Case You Missed It . . .

This week at CBPP, we focused on income security, food assistance, and state budgets and taxes.

On income security, Vicki Turetsky and Diana Azevedo-McCaffrey detailed how directing all child support payments to families — as opposed to state and federal governments keeping a share — would help families afford basic needs and thrive.
On food assistance, Zoë Neuburger outlined the benefits of enrolling a greater share of Medicaid and SNAP participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).
On state budgets and taxes, we updated our state tax cuts tracker with an entry on how automatic tax cuts are beginning to threaten state budgets.

A variety of news outlets featured CBPP’s work and experts this past week. Here are some of our highlights: 