FISCAL BLOG

America's small businesses have been severely impacted by the pandemic — and lawmakers have focused a significant part of federal relief on helping them.

The number of individuals experiencing long-term unemployment (lasting 27 weeks or longer) has quadrupled during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Since April 2020, the federal government has spent an average of $9 billion per month on SNAP.

The decline in purchasing power has important implications for the federal budget and our nation's infrastructure.

The pandemic has caused a public health crisis as well as substantial economic disruption. So far, lawmakers have enacted six separate pieces of legislation.

Three sets of stimulus checks have been issued to eligible recipients as part of the pandemic relief. Each set of payments have been slightly different.

The report highlights the structural misalignment in the country’s budget and the resulting unsustainable fiscal trajectory.

Setting a higher minimum wage would affect family incomes in a variety of ways, including increasing earnings for most low-wage workers and lifting some families out of poverty.

After a promising decline in recent years, the number of Americans without health insurance is back on the rise.

The debt growing to double the size of GDP is, in many respects, a symbolic milestone — but it is a clear indicator of the monumentally unsustainable path of our fiscal trajectory.