... put a package together ... unless you touch the exclusion," said Robert Greenstein, director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which advocates for low-income people. In government jargon, the tax-free status of health insurance ...

... Americans from falling into poverty, including more than 800,000 children, according to the private Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The package also includes a $3 billion emergency fund to provide temporary assistance to needy families ...

WASHINGTON The poor are the people most likely to spend a tax rebate, if they are handed one in an economic revival plan. Whether that happens depends on who prevails the White House or the Democrats who run Congress.

As the economy walloped their finances, students and families saw little relief this fall from rising college costs, which jumped 6.4 percent at state universities, according to new figures out Wednesday.

... are being lifted out of poverty today by these and other federal programs, says Bob Greenstein of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Greenstein notes that those pockets of need targeted by anti-poverty programs generally are better ...

... for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank. Robert Greenstein, executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal group, says a cosmic compromise over future funding of Social Security would be the key to ...

... average worker and the pay of big executives has grown astonishingly wide. A study earlier this fall by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities examined data from the Congressional Budget Office on income disparities. It found that the richest ...

... District of Columbia have dropped the assets test from their Medicaid application process, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, based in Washington, D.C. Huckabee said the assets test, originally implemented during then-Gov ...

... families rose less than 1 percent between 1988 and 1998 but jumped 15 percent for the richest fifth, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Economic Policy Institute said in a report issued Tuesday. Income for the poorest families ...

Details in a report released Tuesday by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities show the current economic boom is something being enjoyed primarily by the nation's wealthiest citizens, and the evidence points ...