The Census Bureau has released nationwide figures for poverty, income, and health insurance coverage in 2023 from its Current Population Survey. Additional health insurance data from the American Community Survey will follow September 12. We’ll be posting our analysis of the data here. Bookmark and visit this page for more. See our paper on what to […]
The share of people lacking health coverage reached an all-time low for the second consecutive year in 2023, falling to 7.9 percent, according to American Community Survey (ACS) data the Census Bureau released today. That’s down from the previous record of 8.0 percent in 2022. Unfortunately, this welcome record is tempered by findings that children’s […]
This week at CBPP, we focused in particular on analyzing 2023 Census Bureau data on poverty, income, and health coverage. Beyond our Census data analyses, we focused on federal taxes, state budgets and taxes, and health. Chart of the Week – Uninsured Rate Decreased Across Most States Following Policy Improvements Uninsured Rate Decreased Across Most […]
During the 2025 tax debate, policymakers have the opportunity to remake the tax code so that it is fairer, works for low- and moderate-income people and families, and advances racial equity. A key priority should be expanding the Child Tax Credit to benefit the roughly 19 million children shut out from receiving the full credit […]
While a powerful wage booster that benefits millions of families with children each year, the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) provides extremely limited support to adults aged 25-64 who work low-paying jobs and are not raising children in their household. Low-paid workers who are younger than 25 or older than 64 are excluded from […]
Census data paint a complicated picture of progress against poverty in 2023, as the national poverty rate fell, rose, or held steady depending on which measure is used: In other words: using inflation-adjusted measures, poverty fell under the official poverty measure, but was unchanged using the alternative SPM, which accounts for food assistance expirations.Stronger government […]
Few people understand the impact of Medicaid better than people enrolled in the program, but their perspectives are often underrepresented in official decision-making. New federal rules present an opportunity for state advocates working on building community power to help ensure the voices of Medicaid enrollees are centered in policy decisions.The previous guidance lacked specificity, leading […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a rule in May 2024 that sets new standards for state agencies to better engage Medicaid enrollees and their families in the Medicaid decision-making process through implementation of Medicaid Advisory Committees (MACs) and Beneficiary Advisory Councils (BACs). As states create their MACs and BACs, state advocates […]
This week at CBPP, we focused on federal taxes, poverty and inequality, and health. Chart of the Week — End of Pandemic Assistance Largely Reversed Recent Progress in Reducing Child Poverty A variety of news outlets featured CBPP’s work and experts this past week. Here are some of the highlights:
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 […]
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 […]
