Items Tagged with 'Center for Budget and Policy Priorities'

States are beginning to tell residents who get SNAP benefits that they won’t be coming in November, as Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins insists USDA cannot provide benefits during the government shutdown.

Advocates for rural hospitals are warning that sweeping changes to Medicaid in the massive tax bill approved in July could threaten the existence of the facilities, which are vital both for the health of rural residents and their communities’ economies.

An estimated 2 million parents and young children could be turned away from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) as the program faces an anticipated $1 billion shortfall in 2024, according to a new analysis released by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

House Republicans proposed a plan Wednesday for raising the federal debt ceiling that would also expand work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to able-bodied adults as old as 55.

House Republicans are targeting SNAP work requirements as they prepare legislation to raise the debt ceiling, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in a speech Monday at the New York Stock Exchange.