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Why is the child tax credit good economic policy? (with Wendy Bach)

Why is the child tax credit good economic policy? (with Wendy Bach)

FromPitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer


Why is the child tax credit good economic policy? (with Wendy Bach)

FromPitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Aug 24, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Everything you need to know about what the expanded child tax credit actually is, why it’s good policy, and how it will impact people’s lives. 

Wendy Bach is a Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is a nationally recognized expert in poverty law. 

Twitter: @wendyabach

Biden’s child tax credit is a step away from a discriminatory system: https://qz.com/2034199/how-does-the-us-child-tax-credit-work/

Two-thirds of people now receive monthly benefit checks: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2021/07/19/two-thirds-of-people-now-receive-monthly-benefit-checks/ 

The time tax: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/07/how-government-learned-waste-your-time-tax/619568/ 

Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/
Twitter: @PitchforkEcon
Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics
Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer
Released:
Aug 24, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Any society that allows itself to become radically unequal eventually collapses into an uprising or a police state—or both. Join venture capitalist Nick Hanauer and some of the world’s leading economic and political thinkers in an exploration of who gets what and why. Turns out, everything you learned about economics is wrong. And if we don’t do something about rising inequality, the pitchforks are coming.