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Commentary
Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…2021, https://www.aei.org/opportunity-social-mobility/turning-back-the-clock-on-welfare-reform/. [40] Howard Husock and Bruce D. Meyer, “Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility,” National Affairs, Fall 2025, https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/subsidized-housing-and-upward-mobility. [41] Gilbert Crouse et al., Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors: 24th Report to Congress, US Department of…
Op-ed
The Contradictions in Democrats’ Child Tax Credit Expansion Promises
…not only undo that major achievement, it would disproportionately harm low-income families for whom work is central to escaping poverty for good. Instead, as AEI’s Kevin Corinth, Bruce Meyer, and…
Blog Post
Making the Child Tax Credit “Fully Refundable” Converts It into Welfare Checks
…that paying adults the same benefit whether they work or not will result in fewer adults working. That’s what Kevin Corinth, Bruce Meyer, and their colleagues found would result from 2021’s CTC…
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…
Blog Post
Turning Back the Clock on Welfare Reform
…percent in 2018, or by over 70 percent compared with the 1996 level: Source: Meyer and Sullivan, 2019. Thresholds anchored in 1980. But liberals are now using the pandemic as…
Report
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
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