Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is one of the nation?s premier policy organizations working at the federal and state levels on fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals

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Articles:

• A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality
  November 29, 2011 16:18
• Policy Basics: How Many Weeks of Unemployment Compensation Are Available?
  November 22, 2011 22:07
• Poverty and Financial Distress Would Have Been Substantially Worse in 2010 Without Government Action, New Census Data Show
  November 14, 2011 01:27
• Misunderstandings Regarding State Debt, Pensions, and Retiree Health Costs Create Unnecessary Alarm
  January 21, 2011 14:03
• Income Gaps Between Very Rich and Everyone Else More Than Tripled In Last Three Decades, New Data Show
  July 11, 2010 13:55
• State-Level Data Show Recovery Act Protecting Millions From Poverty;Act Also Saving and Creating Jobs, Boosting Economy
  December 17, 2009 22:55
• "Upcoding" Problem Exacerbate Overpayments to Medicare Advantage Plans
  March 14, 2009 18:19
• USDA Study Shows States Failing to Connect Many Needy Children to Free School Meals
  March 5, 2009 16:08
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: State-by-State Estimates of Key Provisions Affecting Low- and Moderate-Income Individuals
  March 2, 2009 04:14
• Decade of Neglect Has Weakened Federal Low-Income Housing Programs
  February 26, 2009 09:01
• Impact of Estate Tax on Small Businesses and Farms Is Minimal
  February 25, 2009 08:51
• Funding for States in Economic Recovery Package Will Close Less Than Half of State Budget Deficits
  February 22, 2009 17:03
• Curbing Medicare Advantage overpayments could benefit millions of low-income and minority Americans
  February 21, 2009 21:07
• Why Utilities Are Not Well-Suited to Deliver Relief to Low- and Moderate-Income Consumers in a Climate Bill
  February 20, 2009 14:08
• American Recover and Reinvestment Act of 2009: State-by-State Estimates of Key Provisions Affecting Low- and Moderate-Income Individuals
  February 16, 2009 10:05
• Proponents of Estate Tax Repeal Resurrecting Old Misconceptions
  February 5, 2009 07:10
• Economic Recovery Packages: State-by-State Estimates of Key Provisions Affecting Low- and Moderate-Income Individuals
  January 30, 2009 17:58
• The High Cost of Estate Tax Repeal
  January 30, 2009 07:57
• Temporarily increasing unemployment benefits is better targeted and more stimulative than suspending taxation of unemployment benefits
  January 28, 2009 14:07
• Preliminary Analysis of Medicaid Assistance for States in the House Economic Recovery Package
  January 25, 2009 07:25