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Blog Post
The CTC Work Incentive Works
…CTC’s work incentive. Research from our AEI colleagues Kevin Corinth and Bruce Meyer found that removing the credit’s phase in permanently could have caused up to 1.5 million workers to leave…
Blog Post
The CTC Work Incentive Works
…CTC’s work incentive. Research from our AEI colleagues Kevin Corinth and Bruce Meyer found that removing the credit’s phase in permanently could have caused up to 1.5 million workers to leave…
Op-Ed
Philanthropists Discover the Value of “Sunsetting”
…allowing them to have a larger impact in a shorter time. Adam Meyerson, who was head of the Philanthropy Roundtable for almost 20 years, notes that a sunset clause “helps…
Op-ed
Not Just Tulsa
…were doing blacks a favor by including them in these programs. Many then viewed public housing as desirable quarters. As Edward Banfield and Martin Meyerson wrote in their landmark book…
Testimony
Testimony on Anti-Poverty and Family Support Provisions in the Tax Code
Introduction Chairman Wyden, Ranking Member Crapo, and distinguished members of Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify. My name is Bruce D. Meyer, and I am the McCormick Foundation…
Report
The Size and Census Coverage of the U.S. Homeless Population
Abstract Fundamental questions about the size and characteristics of the homeless population are unresolved because it is unclear whether existing data are sufficiently complete and reliable. We examine these questions…
Blog Post
Work Is Essential to the American Dream
…work requirements, and evidence showed that it would discourage work. In a landmark working paper, AEI’s Bruce Meyer, Kevin Corinth, and their co-authors estimated that it would cause as many as 1.5…
Report
The Change in Poverty from 1995 to 2016 Among Single‐Parent Families
Whether poverty has risen or fallen over time is a key barometer of societal progress. Between 1970 and 2020, the official poverty rate in the United States fell by just 1.2…
Op-Ed
Systemic Disadvantage
…is never over. Rather, systemic-disadvantage analysis is an effort to reframe our policy debate to focus on poverty as it exists today, not 50 or 60 years ago. AEI’s Bruce…
Op-Ed
Less Activation in US Social Assistance Programs?
…income from TANF by other means, including wages from work, tax benefits related to work, and other benefits, especially food stamps (Tiehan, Jolliffe, and Smeeding 2013). Further, 2019research by Bruce Meyer and his colleagues finds that more than 90% of those believed to be in extreme poverty are not so once the value of in-kind transfers such as significant food stamp transfers is added to income, survey reports of earnings and transfer receipt are replaced with more accurate administrative records, and the ownership of assets is accounted for (Haskins and Weidinger 2019). CHANGES IN THE DEFICIT REDUCTION ACT By authorizing the new TANF program and…
Op-Ed
The Bad Science Behind the Child Tax Credit Expansion
…allowance would have a negligible effect on employment.” But both the NAS and the scholars’ letter were wrong. Worse, they should have known it. A new paper by economist Bruce Meyer and…
Multimedia
Post-Pandemic, Remember Previous Progress on Poverty
…enormous reduction in material hardship. According to research by University of Chicago economist Bruce D. Meyer, the percentage of American children living in poverty is now less than 5%, down…