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January 22, 2026
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….
January 13, 2026
Major Changes Coming to SNAP in 2026
…those who were previously living in an area that received a waiver of work requirements. The OBBBA expanded the maximum age of non-disabled SNAP adults subject to work requirements from…
December 23, 2025
The Policy Lessons from Minnesota’s Massive Welfare Fraud
…egregious flaws in the US welfare system. In too many ways, that system is designed to maximize federal spending and minimize accountability for results. That doesn’t absolve the Minnesota perpetrators,…
December 11, 2025
Trump Family Policy Fails to Deliver at the One-Year Mark
…receive the federal deposit. In addition to Trump Accounts, the topped-up Child Tax Credit permanently expanded the maximum credit by $200 and indexed it to inflation. However, this modest change…
November 25, 2025
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…
April 25, 2025
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…
March 4, 2025
A Model for Effective and Reasonable Work Requirements
…implement a work mandate. It aligns incentives, leverages motivation, and provides support services that help people on public benefits to achieve their maximum functional capacity. Ultimately, it encourages individuals to…
January 21, 2025
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…
September 24, 2024
Household Food Insecurity Rises Again – Inflation, especially for households ineligible for safety net programs, to blame
…combined with adjustments to SNAP benefits to account for inflation, the maximum SNAP benefit increased in nominal terms by an astonishing 46.3 percent from 2019 to 2023. Consistent with this…
September 19, 2024
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…