Poverty
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Policy Basics: Aid to the Aged, Blind, and Disabled
Puerto Rico residents don’t have the same access to federal assistance programs as people in the mainland United States. For instance, key nutrition assistance and health coverage programs exist in limited form in Puerto Rico, providing substantially lesser benefits and services than in the rest of the country due to funding constraints.
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P-EBT Gives States an Important Way to Help Hungry Children
Massachusetts yesterday became the first state to receive federal approval to issue benefits through the Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) program to replace the free or reduced-price meals that children are missing at school during this school year, but every other state has the authority and experience to begin issuing P-EBT benefits as well.
Pandemic Hardship Worsening as Relief Programs Near End
With the holiday season upon us and federal unemployment benefits for more than 12 million jobless workers expiring the day after Christmas, a growing number of households are under severe financial strain.
Introducción al Programa de Asistencia Nutricional de Puerto Rico
Strengthening Medicare Financing
El Programa de Asistencia Nutricional de Puerto Rico ayuda a más de la mitad de los niños en la Isla
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Preventing Spike in Evictions Will Help Limit COVID-19’s Spread
If federal policymakers don’t extend a national eviction moratorium — like the one from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that’s in effect until December 31 — millions could soon lose their homes and face a higher risk of getting and spreading COVID-19 at a time when cases are already growing rapidly.
Wave of Evictions Nears as Moratorium Set to Expire
An estimated 9.2 million adult renters — 23 percent of renters — who have lost employment income during COVID-19 are not caught up on rent, our new analysis of Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey data from August to November shows.
States That Remove Barriers to Innovation Can Promote Wider-Shared Prosperity, Well-Being
States can chart a course toward more prosperous, equitable economies and more widely shared well-being, even as they navigate COVID-19’s short-term health and economic challenges, as we show in a new report.
Improved State Taxes on Wealth, High Incomes Can Help Fuel an Equitable Recovery
Families’ access to wealth has played a large role in determining how the pandemic has affected them. The worst of the economic and health effects have largely bypassed wealthier, higher-paid families — which are disproportionately white — but have been far more prevalent among lower-income families and those of color.