Democrats can cut programs, tighten expiration dates, or count tax cuts and spending separately. But so far they’re just posturing and fighting.
Child Tax Credit
Posted inBuilding Back America
The Real Trouble With the Sprawling Reconciliation Bill
Focusing the agenda could have a benefit: a clearer message.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Infrastructure Summer: The Sophie’s Choice of the Reconciliation Bill
Democrats may have to decide whether to do a few things well or a bunch of things not so well.
Posted inTAP
How We Avoided Great Depression 2.0 Last Year
Today on TAP: Cash assistance during the pandemic
Posted inTAP
How the Budget Deal Could Make the Child Tax Credit Permanent
Today on TAP: Democrats hope to extend it as part of budget reconciliation
Posted inEconomic Policy
A Boost in Food Stamps, but Hunger Remains
The Biden administration has secured the biggest expansion of benefits in the history of the food stamp program. It’s still not enough.
Posted inEducation in America
The Child Tax Credit: A Political and Policy Triumph
As Congress begins debating budget reconciliation, the case grows for making the credit permanent—and altering outmoded budget rules to get that done.
Posted inCoronavirus
The Poor Aren’t Getting the Help Democrats Want to Give Them
Pandemic relief measures are hobbled by serious failures of program design and implementation.
Posted inTAP
The 2022 Campaigns: Already All Laid Out
Today on TAP: The two parties’ separate universes
Posted inVideos
⏩ It’s Payback Time: Can Public Programs Get Us Out of Economic Depression?
Watch four writers from our May/June issue in conversation about public payment programs.