By Juan Gomez: Ahead of the 2020 election, President Biden spent months on the campaign trail decrying President Trump’s punitive and inhumane approach to immigration. Yet Biden’s immigration policies mirror those of his predecessor, undermining hope among immigrant advocates and families that a new administration…
Expanding EITC for Young Adults The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) temporarily expanded Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) eligibility for the 2021 tax year to young workers (19-24) who don’t have dependent children and increased the maximum credit from $542 to $1,502. This EITC expansion…
Providing Income to Unemployed Workers Federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance—enacted by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act—helped people unable to work due to the pandemic. This included self-employed workers, those seeking part-time employment, or people who otherwise wouldn’t qualify for regular unemployment benefits.…
This factsheet explores the nutrition provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. Families First includes several important provisions that will help parents and caregivers keep food on the table during this crisis,
Basic needs programs provide core supports that help low-income people immediately and shape positive impacts long term. But current threats and bad proposals would undermine these programs.
While Broad Based Categorical Eligibility can strengthen SNAP’s work incentive effect, the 2018 farm bill effectively eliminates BBCE (except for some households under very narrow conditions).
The House FY 2013 Budget Resolution released this week by budget committee Chairman Paul Ryan makes vague but undeniable threats to the Pell Grant program, proposing to limit funding and further tighten eligibility requirements. The premises for these threats--that Pell is on an unsustainable path…
This fact sheet summarizes the Departments of Labor and Education proposals in the 2019 President's Budget, emphasizing cuts made to critical job training and postsecondary student aid programs for low-income individuals.
This fact sheet analyzes the federal spending priorities that Senator Sanders (I-VT) and Senator Warren (D-MA) outlined on December 8, 2017. Their proposal would support hard-working families by significantly increasing funding for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG).
More than 200 organizations have joined together to urge Congress to reject the GOP tax plans that would harm immigrant children and their families. We urge Congress to do the right thing and stop efforts to fund tax cuts on the backs of children and working…