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April 9, 2024
The Child Tax Credit: My Long-Read Q&A with Kevin Corinth
…get no matter what. So the Wyden-Smith bill does not go there, but it goes part of the way there and I think it sets up a negotiating position. If…
January 29, 2024
Per-Child Benefit in Wyden-Smith Child Tax Credit Bill Would Discourage Full-Time Work for Families with Multiple Children
…children. (In general, the phase-in rate would be 15 percent times the number of dependent children.) In a recent paper, we (with our coauthors Angela Rachidi and Matt Weidinger) provided the…
August 14, 2023
Tracking Plans to Make Pandemic Benefit Expansions Permanent
In 2008, former White House Chief of Staff and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel famously said what has come to be known as Rahm’s rule: “You never want a serious crisis to go to…
August 9, 2023
The CTC Work Incentive Works
…Figure 3, parents working multiple jobs is extremely rare no matter the family income, but especially uncommon among families with income below the full-CTC income threshold. The belief that many…
May 4, 2023
Work Is Essential to the American Dream
…by any value asked about in the survey. We can’t forget why work matters so much to so many people. Work is the key to achieving the American dream: If…