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Ok, this Tax Policy Center analysis is awfully weak. Let’s walk through it

We should find ways to improve the safety net to help poor children. But the Child Tax Credit is supposed to be tax relief for families, not a safety net program. That's the fundamental problem with the Wyden-Smith bill. My new piece for The Dispatch. thedispatch.com/article/lets-n…

Here’s another CTC post from Kevin Corinth & me. We’ve been accused of using “outlier” estimates of the responsiveness of work decisions to changed incentives. For a few years now. Time for folks to put up or…well, you know.

Asking for your help here. (Please RT.) There's a new National Academy of Sciences panel that is tasked with follow-on research from the 2019 panel on child poverty. It will be looking at the effect of the 2021 CTC expansion on child poverty. Here are the proposed members

My latest for AEI's Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility: Social conservatives who care about marriage should think twice about a “per-child” refundable Child Tax Credit. aei.org/articles/socia…

Per the HOUSES Act, the federal government owns 640 million acres of federal land, most of it in the West. Kevin Corinth and his coauthor estimate that transferring just 0.1% to states and localities for housing development could create 2.7 million new homes.

June 20 | 10:00-2:15 ET The War on Poverty at 60 ✅Scott Winship, Kevin Corinth, & Richard Burkhauser American Enterprise Institute ✅David Johnson National Academies ✅James Sullivan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) ✅Wendell Primus & Isabel Sawhill The Brookings Institution ✅Robert Rector Heritage Foundation aei.org/events/the-war…

Important event American Enterprise Institute coming up with Scott Winship Kevin Corinth & more AEI's Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility aei.org/events/the-war…

Join us American Enterprise Institute on June 20 as leading experts evaluate the War on Poverty, 60 years later. How much progress have we made? What are the lessons for the future? RSVP at the link below. aei.org/events/the-war…

Hey! This September, celebrate the release of new income/poverty/health insurance numbers with us! We'll be discussing the new estimates at AEI on 9/10, just after they come out. Join me, Kevin Corinth Michael R. Strain vanessa brown calder and Bradley Hardy aei.org/events/new-cen…

🚨Check out my new paper with Kevin Corinth & Thomas O'Rourke in which we create an individual-level social capital measure for a nationally representative population. (Our state map averaging across individuals is on the upper left. You can see it aligns well w/ state-level measures)

RSVP for next Tuesday's American Enterprise Institute event on the new Census income and poverty data, featuring vanessa brown calder, Bradley Hardy, Michael R. Strain, & Scott Winship. It's arguably the most important data release of the year hitting the morning of the presidential debate. aei.org/events/new-cen…

🚨 Happening tomorrow 🚨 Join Scott Winship Kevin Corinth Michael R. Strain vanessa brown calder and Bradley Hardy as they break down new economic data from the Census Bureau American Enterprise Institute aei.org/events/new-cen…

Our American Enterprise Institute conversation on the new U.S. Census Bureau income and poverty numbers starts at noon today. Join us for lunch or tune in online. AEI's Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility aei.org/events/new-cen…

The data are in. Incomes are up, official poverty is down, and supplemental poverty is hard to interpret. Less than one hour until our American Enterprise Institute conversation on what it all means. aei.org/events/new-cen…

If you listen to JD Vance or Kamala Harris, you would think the child tax credit is one of the only benefits provided to families with children. But when you add up earnings, employer provided benefits, and government benefits, the total amount may surprise you.

Serving in the federal government offers valuable lessons for academics. Three The University of Chicago alumni tell their story: econjwatch.org/articles/our-a…

The Family First Act seeks to increase tax relief for families. In reality, it would send $32 billion more per year in tax refunds to the 53% of families who would no longer pay federal income tax, including a family of 4 with income as high as $94,000. aei.org/opportunity-so…