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March 27, 2025
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
…mark was followed by eighteen years of declining debt-to-GDP levels. But today, we are facing ever-rising debt. By 2055, our national debt is projected to reach 154 percent of GDP,…
February 14, 2025
Poverty During the Pandemic and the Role of Government Transfers
…and money market accounts, certificates of deposit (CDs), directly-held stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. The data are from the CE. Asset information is collected only in the fifth interview of…
December 27, 2024
DOGE Can Drive Reforms in America’s Broken Safety Net Programs
…Reforms help people rise out of poverty through program consolidation, reducing administrative costs, and ensuring states are better stakeholders with financial skin-in-the-game. The hallmark 1996 welfare reform law should serve as a…
November 1, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Policy Book Doesn’t Even Mention Immigration
…border crisis in U.S. history — probably the largest such event in human history,” according to Mark Krikorian of CIS. Secondary effects have been equally prominent. Customs and Border Protection data indicate…
August 29, 2024
Kamala Harris Wants to Turn the Tax Code into a Mammoth ATM
…And the Harris campaign promises to “cut taxes” to “help Americans afford health insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplace” without a hint of irony. These plans would only expand…
June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The evidence is ambiguous as to whether America’s absolute mobility looks worse than or the same as that of Denmark and the…
January 11, 2024
Tax Credit Nation — Politicians Are Casting New Spending As ‘Tax Cuts,’ Hiding Their True Cost
…played an important role in recent American social policy, including by offering incentives for work over welfare. But just because new and expanded credits may be falsely marketed as “tax cuts”…
January 10, 2024
Even Congress’s “Tax Extenders” Are About More Benefits
…marketing. Perhaps it was inevitable that proposals to revive the 2021 CTC expansion would someday find their way into a tax extenders package. But that should only heighten concerns that…
November 21, 2023
Defining Poverty Up
…poverty in America. First, the SPM raises the national poverty guideline (often called the poverty line, which marks the income level where poverty ends) well above the level used by…
November 13, 2023
How The IRS Discourages Boomer Charity
…greater rate, falling 6.4%, or 13.4% inflation-adjusted. There are a wide range of explanations for the drop, including a rocky stock market and the ongoing effects of the Tax Cuts…