SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is the nation’s most important anti-hunger program. In an average month in 2024, SNAP helped an average of more than 41 million low-income people in the United States afford a nutritionally adequate diet.
SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is the nation’s most important anti-hunger program. In an average month in 2024, SNAP helped an average of more than 41 million low-income people in the United States afford a nutritionally adequate diet. Updated November 25, 2024 What Is SNAP? SNAP provides important nutritional support for working […]
households lack consistent access to nutritious food because of limited resources. One study found that participating in SNAP reduced households’ food insecurity by as much as 10 percentage points and reduced “very low food security,” which occurs when one or more household members have to skip meals or otherwise eat less because they lack money, […]
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The Medicaid and marketplace proposals from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 blueprint, the Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) fiscal year 2025 budget, and the Republican House Budget Committee’s (HBC) fiscal year 2025 budget resolution would undermine Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage protections, make health coverage more costly and less comprehensive, shift more costs to states, and increase the number […]
When a mother in Georgia saw all her family’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits stolen from her account, she had no means to feed her children. Over $200 in SNAP benefits were stolen from another mom in Los Angeles County soon after the payment was deposited into her account. Because of the theft, she faced wrenching decisions […]
use of a security weakness in Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards, which are linked to a SNAP recipient’s account where states deposit SNAP benefits once a month. Unlike a debit card from a bank, EBT cards do not have a security chip, leaving them vulnerable to “skimming” when they are swiped at a card reader. […]
Dr. Joanna Rozpedowski hosts a session on “Space Wars: How State Conflict Is Going Extraterrestrial” at the Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk 2024. The biannual conference, organized by the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), aims to break silos between different communities and to share experiences and approaches to studying, […]
While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint session of Congress on July 24, Members of Congress, NGOs and Israeli and Palestinian activists will gather in the Capitol to offer an alternative vision. Speakers will outline a vision for peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians that will differ significantly from what Netanyahu outlines […]
Armed conflict has a pronounced impact on women and girls, significantly constraining their access to education, healthcare, and economic empowerment, and even survival. In this panel, we will emphasize the adverse consequences of armed conflict on the lives of women and girls, highlighting the multifaceted ways in which their rights are further curtailed and their […]
No single piece of legislation establishes the annual federal budget. Rather, Congress makes spending and tax decisions through a variety of legislative actions in ways that have evolved over more than two centuries. The Constitution makes clear that Congress holds the power of the purse, giving it authority “to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts […]
renewal forms. August 2024 Link to this entry August 30 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released monthly unwinding data, including May unwinding renewal outcomes and operations data as well as preliminary June unwinding outcomes data. The August release also included updated outcomes data from January 2024. The data continue to show progress on ex parte rates (or rates of automatic renewals), with the nationwide […]
Workers in most states are eligible for up to 26 weeks of benefits from the regular state-funded unemployment compensation program, although 13 states provide fewer weeks, and two provide more. Extended Benefits (EB) are not triggered on in any state. Additional weeks of pandemic federal benefits ended in all states on September 6, 2021. Updated […]
d product accounts over time, possibly affecting their estimates of the share of total income growth occurring at the top of the distribution. Recent work by Piketty, Saez, and Zucman (PSZ) tries to address this concern by ambitiously combining tax, survey, and national accounts data to estimate the distribution of total national income, both before […]
What is climate change? Human activities — primarily the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas — are increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere, creating long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts in our climate are causing floods, droughts, heat waves, and severe storms, among other impacts. We […]
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the nation’s most important anti-hunger program. This chart book highlights some key characteristics of the 41 million people using the program in a typical month, trends and data on program administration and use, and data on SNAP’s effectiveness in fighting food insecurity and poverty and improving health, education, […]
Deficits (or surpluses), debt, and interest are three central budget concepts. For any given year, the federal budget deficit is the amount of money the federal government spends minus the amount of revenue it takes in. The deficit drives the amount of money the government must borrow in any single year, while the debt is […]
itment to sharing in states’ Medicaid costs. By artificially capping Medicaid funding regardless of the health care needs of people in each state and by providing states with new flexibilities to curtail offered health services and/or eligibility, these proposals would result over time in fewer people being enrolled and in enrollees likely having less-robust coverage. […]
