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October 18, 2024
Pro-Marriage Conservatives Should Reject a Per-Child Phase-In of the Child Tax Credit
Earlier this week, scholars from the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Niskanen Center, and other right-of-center organizations issued a memo calling for pro-family tax reforms during the upcoming debate over the…
April 9, 2024
The Child Tax Credit: My Long-Read Q&A with Kevin Corinth
…raising children. The CTC of today, however, differs starkly from its pre-pandemic structure. Many economists, including Kevin Corinth, think that the post-pandemic changes were a step in the wrong direction. Corinth…
February 12, 2024
Millennials Are Doing Better than You Probably Think
…Five Generations of Americans” by my AEI colleague Kevin Corinth and Jeff Larrimore of the Federal Reserve Board. The economists compared income levels at ages 36–40 across the five generations,…
January 29, 2024
Per-Child Benefit in Wyden-Smith Child Tax Credit Bill Would Discourage Full-Time Work for Families with Multiple Children
The Wyden-Smith proposed tax legislation would make four changes to the Child Tax Credit (CTC). First, it would increase the cap on the refundable portion of the CTC, eventually to the same…
December 1, 2023
Making the Child Tax Credit “Fully Refundable” Converts It into Welfare Checks
…that paying adults the same benefit whether they work or not will result in fewer adults working. That’s what Kevin Corinth, Bruce Meyer, and their colleagues found would result from 2021’s CTC…
November 30, 2023
A Valuable New Perspective on America’s War on Poverty
…an Absolute Full-Income Poverty Measure” by Richard V. Burkhauser (Cornell University), Kevin Corinth (University of Chicago), James Elwell (Joint Committee on Taxation), and Jeff Larrimore (Federal Reserve Board). They try…
October 11, 2023
CHANGING THE OFFICIAL POVERTY MEASURE WOULD HELP RICH STATES AND HURT POOR STATES
Earlier this year, a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report recommended elevating the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) to the “nation’s headline poverty statistic,” and noted that the Office…
August 9, 2023
The CTC Work Incentive Works
…CTC’s work incentive. Research from our AEI colleagues Kevin Corinth and Bruce Meyer found that removing the credit’s phase in permanently could have caused up to 1.5 million workers to leave…
May 30, 2023
Two Sentences Will Strengthen SNAP’s Support for Work
The debt ceiling deal, agreed to by President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, will improve the federal safety net’s effectiveness in helping people rise out of poverty. It modestly…
May 23, 2023
The White House Defender of Welfare Work Requirements
…provided to able-bodied adults without dependents—in their debt limit bill. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has said including work requirements in the debt limit deal is a red line for him and…