The Expanded Child Tax Credit

On the latest episode of Policy Outsider, Leigh Wedonoja, senior policy analyst at the Rockefeller Institute, discusses changes to the Child Tax Credit, how those changes make the credit operate more like the Earned Income Tax Credit, and why the CTC is predicted to improve outcomes for children and families.
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Can Mass Shootings Be Stopped?

Despite a drop in 2020, mass shootings are increasing in frequency and lethality. An updated brief from the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium looks at trends in mass shootings.
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The Expanded Child Tax Credit Looks Like the Earned Income Tax Credit—That’s Great News

Similarities between the programs predict improvements in child and parent health and a dramatic reduction in child poverty.
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Concrete Solutions to Climate Change

An initiative to promote low-carbon concrete in the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson highlights the role local policy can play in reducing carbon dioxide emissions from concrete.
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Student Debt in New York State

A compendium of our research on student loan debt, college access and affordability, and policy options for reducing student loan debt burden in New York State.
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COVID-19 Doesn't Respect Borders

In this interview, Jaime Arredondo, a professor in the Drug Policy Program at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), explains how COVID-19 affected drug use and treatment in Mexican cities along the USA-Mexico border.
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Pandemic Exposes Vulnerability—and Size—of the Gig Workforce

This analysis looks at the vast number of unemployment claims by nontraditional workers in 2020 and the challenges states faced in providing them pandemic unemployment assistance.
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Can a Feed-In Tariff Help Increase Renewable Energy Capacity?

The climate policy tool is used to promote the adoption of renewable technologies but there are challenges to its use in the United States.
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Balance of Payments Report

Our 2021 Balance of Payments report looks at the latest available data (2019) showing the differences between how much states gave to the federal government and how much they received in spending.
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The Expanded Child Tax Credit Looks Like the Earned Income Tax Credit—That’s Great News

July 7, 2021

This analysis explains how similarities between the expanded Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit predict improvements in child and parent health and a dramatic reduction in child poverty.

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Forecasting Fewer Fireworks: Economics or Regulation?

July 1, 2021

A look at New York State's fireworks regulations by county.

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