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February 7, 2024
Child Tax Credit Bill Would Increase Marriage Penalties for Working Single Mothers
…in which taxes fall or transfers rise as a result of marriage. Policymakers have expressed growing concern over marriage penalties, in light of declining marriage rates and the growing prevalence…
January 29, 2024
Let’s Not Turn the Child Tax Credit Into Welfare
…policymakers will ultimately have to decide what the CTC should be: Is it tax relief for families, or is it a welfare program? The newly proposed CTC changes are part…
January 17, 2024
Congress, Don’t Legislate a Takeover of the Nation’s Rental Housing Market
…problem. To be fair, the housing shortage that policymakers are looking to solve is real. However, doubling down with more government subsidies for new apartments isn’t the answer. The root…
January 12, 2024
Congress Shouldn’t Expand Welfare in Return for Corporate Tax Cuts
…government. Disconnecting tax credits from work could end up doing long-run damage to the very children policy-makers are trying to help. The closed-doors discussion to bring back elements of the 2021 Child…
December 21, 2023
Our Policies to Address Homelessness Are Failing
…record for a single-year increase. Our homeless population is now the largest it has ever been. Policy-makers must wake up to this national crisis. Our current approach is broken, and…
October 5, 2023
Changing the Official Poverty Measure Would Help Rich States and Hurt Poor States
…producing independent and apolitical statistics. Aside from these process related issues, policymakers should be concerned about this matter for two additional reasons. First, as already noted making the SPM the…
June 14, 2023
Better Data Means Better Policy
…earnings and income estimates that will be more accurate and, as such, a better tool for policymakers. It’s bigger news than it might seem. If nominal income rises by 5…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
…the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) has offered researchers and policymakers an alternative way of measuring poverty in the United States and assessing the effectiveness of antipoverty policy. The SPM addresses…