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February 6, 2024
Research by a Top Biden Administration Economist Reinforces the Importance of Work Incentives in the Child Tax Credit and the Safety Net
…since 1950.” (p. 4) Bastian cites the research of Schanzenbach and Strain (2020) to argue that a reasonable guess for the true employment effect of eliminating just the EITC would…
January 17, 2024
Achieving Housing Abundance Through State and Local Land Use and Zoning Reform
…and thus allow more Americans to access their own American Dream. Footnotes: [1] Eriksen, Michael D., and Stuart S. Rosenthal. “Crowd out Effects of Place-Based Subsidized Rental Housing: New Evidence from…
January 17, 2024
Tax Extenders Package Would Cut the Child Tax Credit’s Annual Work Requirement in Half
…in a Congress that has strained to find agreement on even routine matters. But some pro-work legislators may be troubled by one provision that would cut in half the current annual work requirement for parents…
January 12, 2024
When It Comes to the State of the American Economy, Let’s Keep It Real
…increase from eight percent in 1960. Then there’s research by my AEI colleague Michael Strain that found income inequality across all households—after accounting for taxes and government transfers and estimated with a Gini…
May 4, 2020
How To Educate an American
In the years after A Nation at Risk, conservatives’ ideas to reform America’s lagging education system gained much traction. Key items like school choice and rigorous academic standards drew bipartisan support…