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Marketplace: Consumer confidence is up despite current bank troubles — will it last?
“’And when people worry,’ said Wendy Edelberg, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, ‘they keep the money in the bank account just in case they need it…
The Hill: How to fight poverty and boost work with an enhanced Child Tax Credit
“Our design maintains the overall anti-poverty effects of the 2021 expansion while encouraging the labor force participation of low-income parents. And it cost…
Marketplace: What the monthly jobs report can — and can’t — tell us about the labor market
“’The employment report gives us information from two totally different points of view. We have information in the employment report from what we call establis…
States Newsroom: Child poverty dropped to a record low last year. A new report shows how to keep it the way.
“The expanded child tax credit that families received in 2021 helped reduce child poverty across the country, but particularly in the South where families lack…
VOA: SNAP supplement expiration seen leaving many Americans hungry
“’ should not be on the chopping block unless policymakers want to increase child poverty and undernutrition, widen inequality and exacerbate racial disparitie…
States Newsroom: Families are taking a hit as pandemic aid ends, inflation continues
“As SNAP’s emergency benefits go away, the effects may eventually show up in Pulse data, said Lauren Bauer, a fellow in economic studies at Brookings Instituti…
CNN Health: A year later, formula stock has recovered from the shortage, but parents haven’t
“’It’s terrifying to think that you aren’t going to be able to nourish your infant,’ said Lauren Bauer, a fellow with the Brookings Institute whose research fo…
The New Yorker: Does the president have control over inflation?
“Wendy Edelberg, the director of the Hamilton Project and a senior fellow in economics at the Brookings Institution, agreed. ‘It’s true, the American Rescue Pl…
