As part of a law passed in 2021, Congress expanded the premium tax credit (PTC) to help make coverage more affordable for people who buy their insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces. The result has been remarkable: nearly 21 million people are receiving ACA coverage in 2024 – a record – driven by the improved […]

States spend less than one-fourth of their combined federal and state Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) dollars on basic cash assistance for families with children, our analysis of the latest data from fiscal year 2022 shows. (See Table 1.) States continue to use their considerable flexibility under TANF to divert funds away from income support for […]

On September 24, non-resident senior fellow Negar Mortazavi participates in a panel on “Imagining Peace in the Middle East” at the Global and National Security Institute (GNSI) Tampa Summit 4, featuring the 10th Great Power Competition Conference (more info on the conference here). Mortazavi is joined on the panel by Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen (United States Institute of […]

Register Now We are excited to invite you to the 2024 Washington Brazil Conference, organized by the Washington Brazil Office and Georgetown University, with support from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). This year's conference will feature a panel discussion titled "The Rise of the Far-Right: […]

Key provisions of the 2017 Trump tax law are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025. Given the law’s fundamental problems — its high cost, skew toward high-income people, and failure to produce the promised economic benefits — policymakers should take that opportunity to make a course correction in the nation’s revenue policies. This […]

The Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center and Atlantik-Brücke will host the Transatlantic Forum on GeoEconomics: Next Frontiers in Finance, Technology, and Energy on September 26, 2024. This is the third convening of the Forum and first time the event will be in the United States. The past two conferences have been held in European financial and political centers—Frankfurt and Berlin. This […]

Climate change and aging energy infrastructure disproportionately impact people with low incomes and people of color, who — due to myriad factors including redlining and other discriminatory systems — are likelier to live in communities where polluting industries are more prevalent and where investments to the public good have been lacking. Black and Hispanic people are […]

This week at CBPP, we focused on federal taxes, climate change, health, and the economy. Chart of the Week — Wealthiest 10 Percent of White Households Own Most U.S. Wealth    A variety of news outlets featured CBPP’s work and experts this past week. Here are some of the highlights:

This past June, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published its new “Securing the Border” interim final rule (IFR). One statistic the agency cited that stood out to me was USCIS’s backlog of affirmative asylum cases. Affirmative asylum applications are those that are filed directly with USCIS, rather than as a defense to removal. Often, these […]

Now that Vice President Kamala Harris is the presumptive Democratic nominee in the 2024 presidential race, the role she’s played in the ongoing border crisis is in the spotlight. The Biden/Harris administration has reeled from one crisis to another at the Southwest border, creating an electoral vulnerability for the soon-to-be crowned candidate. Harris-friendly “fact checkers”, however, are now scrambling to distance […]