Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Child Tax Credit Expansion before Congress Would Help 13 Million Children

...These 13 million children come from families with parents who work in such jobs as nursing home aides, cooks, pre-school teachers, and construction workers."

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Preserving Safe, High Quality Public Housing Should Be a Priority of Federal Housing Policy

Located in more than 3,500 communities across the country, public housing is a vital national resource that assists 2.3 million vulnerable Americans.

Nearly two-thirds of all public housing households include an elderly person or an individual with a disability; without housing assistance, many could be forced to move to an institution."

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Chad Stone

For the seventh consecutive year, the Center has received a four-star rating from Charity Navigator, America's largest independent evaluator of charities."

Click to review our four-star rating.

You often hear that the poor and working people don't have a voice in Washington...As it turns out, this bit of conventional wisdom is wrong for one reason: Bob Greenstein and his crew at the Center..."

Washington Post Columnist Steven Pearlstein's profile of the Center

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