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October 23, 2023
A Carbon Tax to Finance Child Tax Credit Expansion
…the perception that it would disproportionately burden low- and middle-income households relative to high-income households. Many analysts and lawmakers have proposed using carbon tax revenues to either cut taxes or…
October 12, 2023
Now the Administration Is Legislating on Welfare, Too
…treads much of the same legislative ground as recent congressional reauthorization proposals. That should trouble members of Congress in both parties who value their institutional role as lawmakers—not administration regulation-followers….
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…
September 29, 2023
Solutions to Reduce Government Improper Payments Involving Unemployment Benefits
…approximately one in every seven dollars in benefits paid. Policymakers owe American taxpayers an explanation for this unprecedented abuse, starting with how it occurred and what can be done to…
September 29, 2023
Up To $135 Billion In Pandemic Unemployment Fraud – And Still Counting
…especially two full years after pandemic programs ended. Back-of-the-envelope estimates are helpful, but not nearly good enough to inform policymakers and ensure this disaster never recurs. Finally, as the latest GAO report shows,…
September 26, 2023
The Gas Tax Should Not Be Eliminated
…for road use. If lawmakers eliminate these taxes, the price of driving would fall, leading to more cars and trucks using the same roads. Increased driving would increase the externalities…
September 18, 2023
Overregulated Childcare: Wisconsin’s 2023-’25 Biennial Budget and the Path Ahead
…Gov. Tony Evers to continue a pandemic-era program offering direct operating assistance to Wisconsin childcare providers. Instead, Republican lawmakers added $42 million in childcare funding to the budget —including a…
September 15, 2023
Putting This Year’s Poverty Numbers in Context
…subsidies also contributed more to child poverty reduction in 2022 than 2021. As discussed extensively at Tuesday’s AEI event, policymakers and the public are in dire need of a poverty…
September 1, 2023
Despite Staggering Improper Payments, New Labor Department Report Calls for Reviving Pandemic Unemployment Assistance
…history of abuse. Policymakers knew PUA was prone to abuse from almost the moment it was created in March 2020. An April 2020 DOL Inspector General (IG) report found that, under the…
August 9, 2023
The CTC Work Incentive Works
…the workforce. Despite the likely employment reductions, some policymakers have lamented the end of the pandemic-era CTC, arguing that the current CTC unfairly withholds the full amount from the poorest Americans. They…