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October 18, 2024
Pro-Marriage Conservatives Should Reject a Per-Child Phase-In of the Child Tax Credit
…reason to restrain a boost in the maximum credit amount. These three reforms are productive ways to increase the generosity of the credit, including for families with lower incomes. The…
August 2, 2024
Democrats’ Automatic Stimulus Proposals Undermine the Administration’s “Strongest Economy” Claims
…all governed by the Sahm rule. And last fall Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR), accompanied by Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Michael Bennet (D-CO), and Sherrod Brown…
July 17, 2024
Key Takeaways from a New Report on Potential Unemployment Insurance Reforms
…huge new programs strained UI systems to the point of breaking. While the economy is currently healthy, it is critical that policymakers and states take steps to prepare for the…
October 27, 2023
Food Insecurity in the US and Inflation
…2023 from a peak of 11.4 percent in August 2022. This should alleviate some of the strain on low-income households and allow food security rates to stabilize in 2023. …
August 22, 2023
Is Paid Leave a Pro-Growth Policy?
…of some problem in the market), and benefit some groups at the expense of others. Indeed, as my AEI colleague Michael Strain has written, “Such micromanagement would almost surely result in…
August 9, 2023
The CTC Work Incentive Works
…a proponent of the CTC Sen. Michael Bennet cited statistics claiming that nearly 80 percent of those affected by the expiration of the expanded CTC were already working. He went on…