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September 3, 2024
Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event
…S. Hymowitz, William E. Simon Fellow, Manhattan Institute Matt Weidinger, Rowe Scholar, American Enterprise Institute Brad Wilcox, Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Moderator: Kevin Corinth, Deputy Director, Center on…
September 3, 2024
Event: New Census Data on American Families’ Economic Well-Being
…questions to [email protected] or on Twitter with #AEICensusNumbers. Agenda 11:45 a.m. Registration and boxed lunch available 12:00 p.m. Introduction: Kevin Corinth, Deputy Director, Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility, American Enterprise Institute 12:05…
August 24, 2024
Harris’s Child Tax Credit Proposal Could Backfire, Perpetuating Poverty
A centerpiece of Vice President Harris’ newly released economic plan is a revamped Child Tax Credit, which would send families $6,000 for each newborn and up to $3,600 for older…
August 5, 2024
Are Opportunity Zones an Effective Place-Based Policy?
When Congress passed and President Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act at the end of 2017, most attention centered on the reduction in the corporate tax…
July 10, 2024
Has Income Growth between Generations of Americans Stalled?
…prior generation rather than with their parents alone. Note: This research brief is based on Kevin Corinth and Jeff Larrimore, “Has Intergenerational Progress Stalled? Income Growth over Five Generations of…
June 20, 2024
The War on Poverty at 60: Lessons to Inform the Future
…on Poverty and how we can expand opportunity for all. Event Materials Event PowerPoint Slides Agenda 10:00 a.m. Opening Remarks: Kevin Corinth, Deputy Director, Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility,…
May 16, 2024
Critiquing Bastian (2022, 2023, 2024, and forthcoming):On Child Tax Credit Reform and the Sensitivity of Single Mothers to Work Incentives
…making the ARPA CTC permanent would lead nearly 1.5 million parents to leave employment, most of them lower-income single mothers. (Corinth et al., 2021/22) Read the entire working paper here….
May 6, 2024
Generation Z Has Problems Compared to Past Generations, but Money Isn’t One
…the folks whose life is all trauma and who cannot afford children turn out to have more disposable income. This all echoes the findings of my AEI colleague Kevin Corinth,…
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…
March 28, 2024
An Early Look at the Child Tax Credit Changes in the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024
Abstract The Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024, which the US House of Representatives passed on January 31, 2024, and the Senate is now considering, would…