Addressing the nation’s long-term fiscal problems with any constitutional amendment to require annual balanced budgets would ...

As the House Ways and Means Committee prepares to mark up a major tax bill, it is important to step back and consider which priorities it will reflect — whether it will prioritize tax policies that ...

The 2017 tax law’s 20 percent deduction for pass-through business income exemplifies the worst flaws of the law: it’s skewed to the rich, costs significant revenue, and has failed to deliver its ...

With just weeks to go until the premium tax credit (PTC) enhancements expire — which would increase Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...

Costing well over $100 billion a year, tax incentives for retirement plans such as pensions, 401(k)s, and individual retirement accounts (IRAs) are one of the largest federal tax expenditures. Yet ...

As we mark the 50th anniversary of President Johnson’s War on Poverty, we should recognize that poverty has fallen significantly over the last half-century when measured using a comprehensive poverty ...

On January 31, reports began emerging from the Treasury Department that senior civil servants were resisting requests from the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) concerning access to the ...

The gaps in after-tax income between the richest 1 percent of Americans and the middle and poorest fifths of the country more than tripled between 1979 and 2007 (the period for which these data are ...

Some conservative critics of federal social programs, including leading presidential candidates, are sounding an alarm that the United States is rapidly becoming an “entitlement society” in which ...

SNAP’s emergency allotments (EAs) will end after February 2023 issuances, resulting in a benefit cut for every SNAP household in the jurisdictions that still are paying EAs. The temporary benefits ...

The debt ceiling agreement would put almost 750,000 older adults aged 50-54 at risk of losing food assistance through an expansion of the existing, failed SNAP work-reporting requirement. The debt ...

Some 500,000 to 1 million childless adults will be cut off SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly the Food Stamp Program) over the course of 2016 as a three-month limit on ...