G Acs, K Werner - Washington, DC: Urban Institute, 2021 - urban.org
Background Congress enacted the CTC in 1997 (CRS 2018). Originally, the CTC provided a $400 per child nonrefundable credit largely targeted at middle-and upper-middle-income …
Recent proposals to expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC) are at the center of current policy discussions in the United States. We study the fiscal cost of three such proposals that would …
J Bastian - National Tax Journal, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
There is strong disagreement over how a permanent version of the 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) would affect families. I explore how different approaches affect the predicted impact …
Social Policy for Effective Practice: A Strengths Approach sharpens students' awareness of social welfare policy and offers a considerable array of resources and knowledge …
K Corinth, BD Meyer, M Stadnicki, D Wu - 2021 - nber.org
The replacement of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) with a child allowance has been advocated by numerous policymakers and researchers. We estimate the anti-poverty, targeting, and …
Two timely poverty measures were developed to monitor economic conditions in the pandemic. One uses reports to a global income question on the Current Population Survey …
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families …
E Ananat, I Garfinkel - … ANNALS of the American Academy of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Inclusion of the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) in the 2021 American Rescue Plan was, for many, a feasibility test of the impact of a permanent child allowance in the US The CTC …
ME Brehm, O Malkova - National Tax Journal, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
We examine disparities in Child Tax Credit (CTC) eligibility and antipoverty effects since 1998 by family type. Initially, single mothers were least likely to be eligible and were …