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Policy Briefs
Revisiting the Child Tax Credit for the Lame Duck Session: Comparing Parameters for Anti-Poverty Impacts
JFI researchers review recent CTC proposals and simulate the effects of varying key reforms that increase the policy’s anti-poverty impacts, parameters which will likely feature in lame-duck negotiations.
Analysis of Full Refundability of the Child Tax Credit Without Expansion
Recent reports indicate that the Build Back Better legislative package will allow the increased Child Tax Credit value to continue for one year, while making its full refundability provision permanent; JFI researchers simulate the effects on poverty, costs, and racial equity
Reducing Refundability of the Child Tax Credit: Assessing Poverty Impacts and Trade-offs
A microsimulation brief finding that proposals to limit the refundability of the Child Tax Credit would increase child poverty by 53 percent, along with other trade-offs
Assessing Non-filer Rates & Poverty Impacts for the American Rescue Plan Act’s Expanded CTC
A microsimulation of child poverty impacts and analysis of how to reach eligible non-filers for maximum poverty impacts
Robust evidence for $1400 relief and recovery checks
Drawing on over a decade of rigorous research, JFI Senior Fellow Claudia Sahm presents evidence in favor of additional $1400 checks for all those that received $600 earlier this year
Comparing bipartisan proposals for a federal child allowance expansion
JFI researchers compare child allowance proposals from the perspective of extensive cash-transfer expertise
JFI Fellow Mike Pizzi writes on artifical intelligence governance at the United Nations
Co-authored with Mila Romanoff, the piece provides an overview of AI governance at UN Global Pulse
Key Comparisons in Proposed Cash Transfer Legislation
Prepared by lead researchers in guaranteed income and cash transfer policy worldwide at the Jain Family Institute.
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