Medicare faces serious short-term and long-term financial pressures. This report examines the revenue and distributional effects of options to increase revenues for Medicare and discusses their relative pros and cons. We use the Tax Policy Center microsimulation model to estimate the effect of...
The literature on data privacy often ignores the value of penalties in strengthening data protection while allowing data to safely be shared for research purposes. This note explains why significant penalties and effective enforcement for unauthorized disclosures of confidential data should be...
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed vast social and economic inequities in the US, which prompted unprecedented relief policies that, for one year, brought child poverty to its lowest levels in decades. However, as the economy enters a new phase of robust job growth, high inflation, and ongoing...
Refundable tax credits can play an important role in the financial lives of low-income families. The two that provide the most support are the earned income tax credit (EITC) and the child tax credit (CTC). Refundable tax credits differ from most programs that provide income support to low-...
The Child Tax Credit (CTC), expanded under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021, dramatically reduced child poverty across the United States in 2021, but it did not reach all eligible families equally. Immigrant families continued to face barriers in learning about and claiming their tax...
Options for Increasing Medicare Revenues
Medicare faces serious short-term and long-term financial pressures. This report examines the revenue and distributional effects of options to increase revenues for Medicare and discusses their relative pros and cons. We use the Tax Policy Center microsimulation model to estimate the effect of...
Do Millionaires Adjust the Realizations of Their Long-term Capital Gains When Taxes Change?
Helping New Mothers Understand the Benefits of Filing Taxes
Trusted Messengers' Role in Helping New Mothers File Taxes
Comparing Plans to Reduce Child Poverty: the Family Security Act 2.0 Framework and the Expanded Child Tax Credit
Penalties for Unauthorized Disclosure and Data Privacy
The literature on data privacy often ignores the value of penalties in strengthening data protection while allowing data to safely be shared for research purposes. This note explains why significant penalties and effective enforcement for unauthorized disclosures of confidential data should be...
Perspectives on the Impact of the Expanded Child Tax Credit and the Development of a New Research Agenda on Child and Family Economic Well-Being
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed vast social and economic inequities in the US, which prompted unprecedented relief policies that, for one year, brought child poverty to its lowest levels in decades. However, as the economy enters a new phase of robust job growth, high inflation, and ongoing...
How Well Can Limited Data Predict Annual Tax Credits
Refundable tax credits can play an important role in the financial lives of low-income families. The two that provide the most support are the earned income tax credit (EITC) and the child tax credit (CTC). Refundable tax credits differ from most programs that provide income support to low-...
Lessons Learned from Expanded Child Tax Credit Outreach to Immigrant Communities in Boston
The Child Tax Credit (CTC), expanded under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021, dramatically reduced child poverty across the United States in 2021, but it did not reach all eligible families equally. Immigrant families continued to face barriers in learning about and claiming their tax...
Using State-Level Data To Understand How the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Affected Charitable Contributions