Save the Child Tax Credit from administrative burdens!
Joe Manchin is pushing to add work requirements to the CTC. Here is why that is a terrible idea.
(This is my first Substack post. Please consider signing up if this sort of stuff is of interest). donmoynihan.substack.com/p/save-the-chi…
With @pamela_herd I also wrote @TheHillOpinion about what Manchin gets wrong about the Child Tax Credit. thehill.com/blogs/congress…
In our piece in The Hill we provide a series of data points about the effectiveness of the CTC at reducing poverty.
It will, for example, halve child poverty in Manchin's West Virginia. But not if we condition it on work or educational requirements.
thehill.com/blogs/congress…
One benefit of the blog format is that it allows me to go into more depth than is possible in an op-ed, to explore research-policy connections. For example, I link Manchin's actions to the research on the social constructions of deservingness.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/save-the-chi…
I included a preview of a @jainfamilyinst report in my blog but here is the full report.
TLDR adding work requirements would not save much money, but would have a huge negative effect on the poverty-reducing and racial equity aspects of CTC. jainfamilyinstitute.org/news/reducing-…
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