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July 11, 2024
…ask nearly identical questions, results from the HPS can differ substantially from the FSS. For example, a 2021 report by one of us (Rachidi, with co-author Scott Winship) demonstrated the…
March 11, 2024
…Scott Winship, “A Safety Net for the Future: Overcoming the Root Causes of Poverty,” in American Renewal, ed. Paul Ryan and Angela Rachidi. Consider just some of the major social…
February 27, 2024
H.R. 7024, the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024, passed the House on January 31, 2024 and now faces an uncertain fate in the Senate. The…
February 8, 2024
…led by our colleagues Kevin Corinth and Scott Winship, the potential negative employment effects from the proposed lookback policy are notable. We estimated a net employment reduction from a permanent…
January 19, 2024
Abstract Senior House and Senate tax committee leaders agreed to a framework for modifying the Child Tax Credit on January 16, 2024. The most consequential reform would eliminate the Child…
October 17, 2023
COSM scholars and AEI affiliates include some of the nation’s foremost experts on poverty measurement. On October 17, COSM gathered several of these scholars to provide a primer on opportunity…
September 12, 2023
…New Census Income and Poverty Estimates for 2022 Panelists: Angela Rachidi, Rowe Scholar, AEI Matt Weidinger, Rowe Scholar, AEI Scott Winship, Director, Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility, AEI Moderator:…
June 24, 2023
On June 22, AEI’s Scott Winship and Angela Rachidi were joined by Oren Cass of American Compass and Idrees Kahloon of the Economist to review the evidence on family affordability…
June 13, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rVeKGHe44s&t=6s Chairman Thompson, Ranking Member Scott, and members of the Agriculture Committee. Thank you for the opportunity to testify on this important issue. My name is Angela Rachidi and I…
July 2, 2021
Key Points The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) partly improves on the Official Poverty Measure but still suffers from several shortcomings that limit its usefulness as an effective poverty measure. The…