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Reforming Tax Credits to Promote Child Opportunity and Aid Working Families
Key Points While we should always want to reduce hardship, there are better and worse ways to lower poverty. Antipoverty policy should focus on not just the short term but…
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Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
Key Points The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) partly improves on the Official Poverty Measure but still suffers from several shortcomings that limit its usefulness as an effective poverty measure. The…
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Long Shadows: The Black-White Gap in Multigenerational Poverty
Key Points This report examines racial disparities in income mobility across three generations by drawing on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. More than half a century since…
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The Conservative Case Against Child Allowances
Key Points Child allowances are an increasingly discussed policy to reduce child poverty, and support for them has become a litmus test of whether someone cares about child poverty. But…