A notice of the draft 2017-2018 FAFSA has been released, and it includes a significant change for low-income students: the addition of an applicant’s receipt of Medicaid as a qualification for the Simplified Needs Test.

Under the proposed budget plan, legislators seek to balance the budget on the backs of low-income Americans by cutting into critical programs that actually work to address poverty.

As the Senate moves forward with its 302(b) allocations, House appropriators continue to deliberate on theirs. The lag means that the House of Representatives may still take up the  Budget Committee’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget resolution.

In March 2016, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) introduced the Young Child Tax Credit Act, which would provide families that have young children under the age of 3 with an additional $1,500 refundable tax credit per child.

In this op-ed, Liz Ben-Ishai discusses legislation in the City of Los Angeles that would protect the rights of workers.

Until 2014, tipped workers were excluded from the District of Columbia’s paid sick days law. This omission has since been remedied, but tipped workers around the country remain uniquely disadvantaged; this is especially true for women and people of color. At a recent event by the Public…

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, often referred to as food stamps) is a critical nutrition program for millions of low-income families and has one of the lowest rates for error and fraud. However, when states opt to require photos on SNAP Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT)…

This blog discusses the fate of DACA in the Supreme Court.

On International Women’s Day (IWD), the media, public figures, and global organizations join together to celebrate women’s roles as mothers, caregivers, and workers. But while the U.S. will participate in these celebrations, we frequently fail to support these roles financially, socially, and culturally. 

Since 1996, inflation has eroded the value of a dollar by more than 30 percent. Some key costs have gone up much more—the average fair market rent for a two-bedroom apartment in the United States has increased by 71 percent and average transit fares have increased by 50 percent.…