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One last point re:Klevan 2019. I think that people sometimes are overselling how much it matters whether people understand the EITC. Here’s an example from @ryanlcooper’s (excellent!) review of @mattbruenig’s

Philippa Smallwood

Everton get an awful lot right. However, the way they are handling the fans not being able to go to Goodison has been horrendous. Taking fans money and not refunding

Speaker Pelosi’s #COVID19 economic relief proposal includes critical temporary improvements in the Child Tax Credit and EITC, providing well-timed and effective stimulus and helping avoid a dramatic poverty spike.Threadhttp://bit.ly/2ztDn2x CBO

1/4 VIRTUAL RUN FOR THE 96 2021Due to the ongoing pandemic, once again we are hosting Run For The 96 virtually. As much as we'd love to run in Stanley

The argument in this piece by @maxbsawicky seems to be that, because there are obstacles to the most ethical and logically sound policy, we shouldn’t push for it. I heard

Just for fun I used an online tax calculator to see what the federal income tax bill would be for a single person with (just) $20,000 in before-tax income. This

The Rescue Act made historic expansions to the Child Tax Credit & EITC. The new Biden plan takes 3 important steps forward but Congress needs to make these expansions permanent

The American Families Plan will total $1.8T in spending & tax cuts:$1T spending --> $200B universal preschool, $109B free community college, $225B national paid leave$800B tax cuts --> permanent expansion

Thread: Why do technocrats swoon over mechanistic policies like the EITC but almost ignore unions as an anti-poverty tool? Because technocrats don’t actually trust poor people. The EITC protects workers

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Keep fighting Communism. FSA will direct deposit your check. 2/ To put a finer point on this, whenever farm subsidies are brought up, farmers invariably say,"the government wants to keep

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Friendly reminder, 60% of med student’s parents are in the upper 10% of income earners, so most of y’all didn’t get this experiential learning like I did.Without further ado, the

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Putting together some Tik Toks on safety net programs (our last unit to cover in Public Econ). You can follow them here as I upload them or you can follow

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Our virtual #TownHall is starting now! We will be discussing the ways #COVID19 has disproportionately affects marginalized communities, including immigrant families, families with low-incomes, and communities of color.#WhatEquityLooksLike C