RESEARCH & REFERENCES

"Several strands of research over the past twenty years have helped form a consensus among leading academics that cash income spent by parents can reduce disadvantages for children significantly. The research has partly been based on experiments when some poor groups have suddenly had access to more money than others, due, for example, to increases in the generosity of federal social programs."

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April 2023

A child care tax credit might get support from a bipartisan group of Alabama lawmakers this year

April 2023

Researchers Identify Ways to Replicate Success of Expanded Child Tax Credit

Nov 2022

Child Tax Credit Expansion Would Shrink the Racial Wealth Gap

Dec 2022

Congress Decides Corporate Tax Cuts Are Too Expensive If It Means Also Helping Children

Dec 2022

The US Should Follow EU's Steps Toward Global Minimum Tax

March 2023

Why hasn’t U.S. poverty improved in 50 years? Pulitzer-prize winning author Matthew Desmond has an answer

May 2023

U.N. Panel hears Minnesotans' stories of systemic racism in policing and prisons

April 2022

Lucina Kayee on Abolishing Foster Care

November 2021

Lucina Kayee: The Stories of Foster Youth

July 2016

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