Tag: Earned Income Tax Credit

Reducing the marriage tax penalty for low-income families

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 American Enterprise Institute

Conservatives have long been interested in policies that support working families while encouraging marriage as a pathway to escape poverty. In a 2015 piece for the Institute for Family Studies, Brooklyn College Professor Robert Cherry ....

Counting unemployment as taxable income is no tax law quirk

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 American Enterprise Institute

An Axios piece warned that recipients of unemployment insurance benefits may receive a smaller tax refund or owe taxes due to a “quirk” in the tax code that counts these benefits as taxable income. In ....

Pro-natal and pro-work conservatism

November 25, 2020November 25, 2020 American Enterprise Institute

Conservative scholars and policymakers have given the Child Tax Credit (CTC) a lot of attention recently as an avenue to send families additional support while addressing declining fertility in the US. Expanding the CTC may ....

Here’s the economic logic of reducing that $600 bonus unemployment benefit

August 5, 2020August 5, 2020 American Enterprise Institute

One of the most contentious parts of the “phase four” economic support and stimulus package floundering in Congress right now: What to do about that $600 weekly federal payment to supplement standard state-provided unemployment benefits? ....

Reducing the marriage tax penalty for low-income families

Counting unemployment as taxable income is no tax law quirk

Pro-natal and pro-work conservatism

Here’s the economic logic of reducing that $600 bonus unemployment benefit

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