Professor Bruce Meyer Discusses Research on the Impact of the Child Tax Credit

Harris Public Policy Professor Bruce D. Meyer, the McCormick Foundation professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and Kevin Corinth, the executive director of the Comprehensive Income Dataset Project at the University of Chicago, discuss their latest research on the negative labor market impacts of the proposed expansion of the current child tax credit. 

"Expanding the child tax credit would not be a cost-effective way to address poverty. It would lead a substantial number of parents to stop working. Until these basic facts are acknowledged, the policy will overpromise and underdeliver on its bold claims," said the authors. 

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