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Commentary
Time Limits and Work Requirements Would Improve Subsidized Housing Programs
…deep and long-lasting. In the voucher program, recipient families pay 30% of their monthly income toward rent, and the federal government pays the rest, up to a maximum rent level…
Commentary
The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Should Not Subsidize Stay-at-Home Parents
…dependent adults unable to care for themselves). The maximum eligible childcare cost is $3,000 for a family with one child and $6,000 for a family with two or more children….
Commentary
Congress Should Restore Local Autonomy Over Homeless Aid
…communities local autonomy over their response to homelessness, in effect that may not have been possible. If the administration had rewritten the scoring rubric to provide maximum local autonomy under…
Multimedia
An Evaluation of Approaches to Cut and Reform SNAP
…reducing the maximum SNAP benefit. Currently for a family of three, the maximum monthly benefit is $768 per month. One option is to reduce that amount, and actually in 2021…
Report
An Evaluation of Cost-Saving Reforms to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
…elements: reducing the maximum SNAP benefit, reducing deductions, expanding work requirements, and ending broad-based categorical eligibility. I analyze each of these reforms, focusing on the consequences for the SNAP benefit…
Commentary
A Baby Bonus Is the Wrong Response to Declining Fertility
…the sake of illustration, consider the maximum additional amount of various tax credits and transfers a new child can make a family eligible to receive over their first 18 years…
AEI Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility Working Paper
An Evaluation of Cost Saving Reforms of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
…the following cost-saving elements: reducing the maximum SNAP benefit, reducing deductions, expanding work requirements, and ending broad based categorical eligibility. In this paper I analyze each of these reform elements…
Blog Post
The Family First Act Would Expand Net Income Tax Refunds to Higher Income Families
…Tax Credit to $4,200 for children aged to 5 and $3,000 for children aged 6 to 17, compared to the current $2,000 maximum for all eligible children. It would also…
Commentary
President Trump’s USDA Should Fix Food Stamp Work Requirement Waivers
…of maximizing their waiver coverage. Therefore, even if one area (county, city, town, etc.) is not eligible for a waiver according to any of the above criteria, the area may…
Blog Post
Pro-Marriage Conservatives Should Reject a Per-Child Phase-In of the Child Tax Credit
…Credit in four ways. First, they would increase the maximum Child Tax Credit from $2,000 to $3,000, a costly increase. A better idea would be to immediately increase the maximum…
Commentary
Government Benefit Programs Already Do a Lot to Help Low Income Families
…work and have no tax liability do not benefit at all from the CTC. Proposals to increase the generosity of the CTC would generally increase the maximum amount and allow…
Op-Ed
Harris’s Child Tax Credit Proposal Could Backfire, Perpetuating Poverty
…increased dollar amounts have attracted most of the attention, a key motivation for these proposals is to ensure working families with low incomes receive the maximum credit. Working families who…