Description
A podcast featuring Damon Jones, an economist at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. Jones discusses the Earned Income Tax Credit, along with other refundable tax credits, and the associated "lump sum" tax returns for lower income tax filers. He looks into the unpopularity of the now-defunct Advance EITC and how the lessons learned from that program might apply to other efforts to distribute the EITC and other credits throughout the year, as well as the implications for healthcare credits under the Affordable Care Act.
In this podcast, Alexes Harris, a sociologist at the University of Washington, talks about work from her June 2016 book Pound of Flesh: Monetary Legal Sanctions as Punishment for the Poor.
Music is from "Test Drive" by Zapac, used under Creative Commons license.
Published 05/27/16
In this podcast, Chris Herbst of Arizona State University discusses his research on changes in the cost of child care in the United States in recent decades. Despite reports of skyrocketing child care costs, Herbst finds that child care costs have been essentially flat since around 2000 and that...
Published 05/03/16
Our April 2016 podcast features IRP National Poverty Fellow Megan Reid discussing her research on cohabiting stepfamily formation among low-income black families in the Bronx and, in particular, the ways in which mothers engage in deliberative vetting of potential partners before allowing them to...
Published 04/01/16