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The expiration of the Child Tax CreditΒ sentΒ an estimated 3.7 million children back into poverty.
It's now on Democrats to work with Republicans on a bipartisan expansion as the most viable path forward.
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I encourage to read our recent analysis and help us combat the social engineering inherent to the status quo that he's implicitly defending, whether he knows it or not.
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The Family Security Act reduces marriage penalties and gets much closer to neutral, *reversing* a form of social engineering
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Watching AEI conversation with Sen. @MittRomney on the future of conservative family policy.
Child policy, including the Child Tax Credit, should be about the best interests of children and child well-being and NOT a focus for social engineering by conservative think tanks. (1)
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Letβs hope this includes permitting reform to reduce costs and time for building out solar generation and geothermal electric energy projects π€
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This is huge news:
Manchin just announced that Biden, Schumer, and Pelosi have agreed to advance permitting reforms later this year.
Time to reform NEPA so we can build more energy infrastructure 
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A great summary of the truly depraved "Camp of the Saints."
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New from me at @BulwarkOnline: #ViktorOrban flirts brazenly with white nationalism. Are American "national conservatives" on board?
thebulwark.com/do-american-na
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The Inflation Reduction Act is unlikely to meaningfully reduce inflation and is unlikely to meaningfully reduce deficits: ntu.org/publications/d
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. earlier today:
"There are far too many boomers around. Is this the time for my joke? The last words I heard from my grandfather: Stop shaking the ladder you little jerk! So we're on the ladder and it's time for you guys to start shaking it."
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Concern abt Facebook monopolizing the βmetaverseβ only exists if ur in complete denial about the existence and quality of video games and wider gaming culture
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BREAKING: FTC files injunction against Meta (Facebook) to prevent it from acquiring the Virtual Reality app "Within"
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School lockdowns, crime, and other urban maladies seem to have driven large numbers of families out of urban America:
βBetween 2019 and July 2021, large urban counties saw their under-five population fall by 358,000 children, a decline of 5.4 percent.β
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.@SenatorMenendez says there are "issues" with Schumer and Manchin's reconciliation deal "that should be addressed, namely lifting the SALT cap.β
NJ is a state where SALT provisions are huge
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There should be a guy in Congress whose only job is to flag bills with unnecessary benefit cliffs and correct the design or else its not allowed to be voted on, like a parliamentarian for effect marginal tax rates.
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And they come with income cutoffs - no phaseouts, just cliffs.
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Tax credits for βclean vehiclesβ include hydrogen-fueled cars in addition to EVs.
Manchin had pushed for making the credits available to hydrogen cars
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This is incredibly sad. Chris was such a thoughtful editor and colleague.
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New post from me + highlights the flight of families with young children from cities.
As an urbanist, this is depressing. Local governments need to ask how they can build cities more hospitable to families, particularly young families.
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βOur tax code should not favor red state or blue state elites with loopholes like SALTβ¦β
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Wow, totally out of nowhere. Notably comes immediately after vote on CHIPs that McConnell had threatened to hold to over exactly this type of reconciliation deal. twitter.com/jakesherman/stβ¦
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Nathan Fielder is responsible for the funniest 14 seconds in the history of television
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Given his struggles to boost vaccination rates and make investments in children, I think the time case come for Joe Biden to implement plan B, full Sharia Law
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Sharia Law in Nigeria "increased vaccination rates, duration of breastfeeding, and prenatal health care" and improved survival through child protection laws and by formalizing a childβs "duty to maintain their parents in old age or in sickness."
sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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1/ I am thrilled to roll out my plan, the Dynamic Society, to catalyze American ingenuity to innovate through our most pressing challenges and realize a more imaginative and exhilarating future. America is meant to build, invent, and create.
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Sharia Law in Nigeria "increased vaccination rates, duration of breastfeeding, and prenatal health care" and improved survival through child protection laws and by formalizing a childβs "duty to maintain their parents in old age or in sickness."
sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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"business retreats and sanctions are catastrophically crippling the Russian economy."
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Russia divesting from space missions is a great loss to global science and international cooperation imo, not something to celebrate.
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Hopefully the start of a trend of Russia quitting places cnn.com/2022/07/26/wor
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I've past argued for thinking of Progress Studies as a throwback to early critical theory, with its integrated, social scientific approach to changing society as a whole. The NIH and broader public health world are certaintly worthy objects of criticism.
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I've past argued for thinking of Progress Studies as a throwback to early critical theory, with its integrated, social scientific approach to changing society as a whole. The NIH and broader public health world are certaintly worthy objects of criticism.
us9.campaign-archive.com/?u=276eacc7fc4
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This is very relevant to my interests.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111
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Hurray! My piece, "From Analytic Pragmatism to Historical Materialism: The Frankfurt School and the Quine-Duhem Thesis" is now forthcoming in the European Journal of Philosophy.
Here is an abstract:
My claim is that there is in early critical theory a version of the (1/n)
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The US underinvests in active labor market policies. Now even the anemic TAA program is dead. And we wonder why workers are suspicious of free trade deals.
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Trade Adjustment Assistance is toast huffpost.com/entry/trade-ad
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"Providing people with money does not substantially reduce employmentβbut taking benefits away from the employed will."
Read on the need for basic income pilot programs to avoid inadvertently creating poverty traps.
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Under the Rubio-Lee proposal, total Child Tax Credit cannot exceed a householdβs payroll and income tax liability. As a result, their plan is much less generous to low- and middle-income households than the FSA 2.0, particularly for larger families and those with young children.
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Following Dobbs, & released a plan to expand the Child Tax Credit.
How does it stack-up against the Family Security Act 2.0, the pro-life CTC proposed by & ?
Read to find out:
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1οΈβ£ led the Anti-Vax Movement in Congress
2οΈβ£After NYC was ground zero for COVID β still endorsed her
We need a new generation of leaders who put science & judgment ahead of politics & power.
Take one minute and watch for yourself:
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"But because of politics, ideology or simple corporate influence, every parental leave proposal that makes its way into Congress ends up as a complicated mess..."
nails it.
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Really? So disappointing to see this from . Just 10 years ago Heritage was for expanding H-1B visas, now not even for helping the children of legal high skilled immigrants with approved green cards.
And no, the border has nothing to do with them. They're here legally.
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Whatβs interesting is a lot of people have the intuition that people are more mobile these days when itβs actually the opposite β despite cheaper airfare and much cheaper telecommunications, Americans have become less likely to move.
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If you are 26 or older and live more than 100 miles away from where you grew up, you are very, very unusual apnews.com/article/census
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We donβt always notice the π° value technology has added to our lives. Two views:
π»The average Americans would need to be paid $15k a year to give up search engines & $6k for email pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.107
π±As showed, we carry millions worth of software in our pockets
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The US is unique in also issuing Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, or ITINs, which the IRS created to enable unauthorized workers to file their taxes.
This raised tensions over eligibility rules, as family benefits became increasingly delivered through the tax code.
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Congress introduced Social Security numbers to track workersβ earnings and determine new program benefits.
SSNs are now required for authorized work and access to many government benefits, mirroring the approach taken by most other countries, including Canada and the UK.
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