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February 6, 2024
Research by a Top Biden Administration Economist Reinforces the Importance of Work Incentives in the Child Tax Credit and the Safety Net
…Bastian’s Figure 2, that is roughly the level of single mother employment that existed in 1980 or 1984, before the EITC was significantly expanded for the first time in 1986…
February 5, 2024
Why We All Rely On the Organized Kindness of Strangers
…failed us in ways too numerous to mention. As a religion reporter, I spend an increasing amount of my time reporting those failings. And yet those congregations are still irreplaceable…
January 31, 2024
How Should State and Local Governments Respond to Illegal Retail Cannabis?
…time, as with tobacco, public health authorities should mount education campaigns to minimize marijuana use, in light of its demonstrated dangers. How-Should-State-and-Local-Governments-Respond-to-Illegal-Retail-CannabisDownload Introduction Legal cannabis has become a fact of…
January 31, 2024
The Wyden-Smith Child Tax Credit and Work: Responding to Critics
…time, it makes working this year more attractive—even if only by a couple thousand dollars—for parents who weren’t going to work this year or next year. They can go without…
January 31, 2024
Perspective: The ‘social workplace’ and why it matters to Zoomers
…tends to grow over time, reaching 63% by late career. One explanation for these trends could be that younger workers may not have had the same amount of time to…
January 29, 2024
Per-Child Benefit in Wyden-Smith Child Tax Credit Bill Would Discourage Full-Time Work for Families with Multiple Children
…would rise by $6,200, for an effective tax rate of 69 percent. A 14 percentage point increase in the effective tax on moving from part-time to full-time work for some…
January 29, 2024
How Should Students Think About College?
…to weigh the decision carefully to avoid the double-negative of no degree and student loan debt. This “propensity to complete” is perhaps the most important variable. Without it, the time…
January 29, 2024
Let’s Not Turn the Child Tax Credit Into Welfare
…$2,500 minimum threshold. For example, if a family earns $10,000 in a year ($7,500 above the minimum threshold), they receive $1,125 as a refundable credit ($7,500 times 15 percent). The refundable…
January 24, 2024
It’s National School Choice Week. Democrats: What Do You Think?
This week is National School Choice Week, which makes it a good time to ponder the state of the school choice coalition. During the Clinton–Bush school reform era, broad swaths…
January 23, 2024
A Follow-Up on My Recent Testimony to the Joint Economic Committee on Policy Approaches to Increasing the Supply of Affordable Housing
…offers generous tax credits for builders that rent units to tenants earning below 60% of area median income. During the hearing’s Q&A, I did not have time to elaborate on…