Robert Greenstein
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Washington, DC, United States
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Next steps on the Child Tax Credit
Robert Greenstein identifies priorities for expanding the Child Tax Credit. Pulling from research on the credit's impact, he urges strengthening the CTC for low-income children as much as possible. → Read More
Ending WIC competitive bidding could harm millions of women and children
Ending competitive bidding would be a serious mistake → Read More
Budget reconciliation: Calling it a '$3.5 trillion spending bill' isn't quite right
The forthcoming budget reconciliation bill has been described as a $3.5 trillion spending bill. It isn’t. → Read More
How could expanded tax credits reduce child poverty?
The American Rescue Plan's expanded child and earned income tax credits have the potential to dramatically reduce poverty, especially among low-income families and workers, but Robert Greenstein explains why it's critical the credits be made permanent to be truly transformative. → Read More
Strengthening the Child Tax Credit: What comes next?
In a new blog, Bob Greenstein outlines the future of the Child Tax Credit, and examines how the American Family Plan can help make this credit permanent. → Read More
Trump Administration Rule Will Harm Immigrant Families and Ill-Serve America
President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security today released a rule that makes extensive and deeply troubling changes in our nation’s immigration policies. → Read More
Greenstein: Trump SNAP Proposal Would Cost Many of Nation’s Poorest Their Food Aid
The Administration is now proposing to implement, through executive action, what it failed to secure through legislation. → Read More
Trump Rule Would Threaten Low-Wage Legal Immigrants in the U.S. If Their Families Receive Any of Wide Array of Benefits, Including the Earned Income Tax Credit
The Trump Administration is planning[1] a radical change in policy that would jeopardize the immigration status of substantial numbers of legal immigrants who work at low-wage jobs and whose families receive any of a sweeping array of benefits or tax credits — even though, under federal law, these immigrants are fully eligible to receive them. → Read More
Greenstein: Conaway SNAP Proposals Would Increase Food Insecurity and Hardship
The significant proposed changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would end or reduce benefits for a substantial number of low-income people. → Read More
DACA Relief Can’t Wait Until March 5
There’s a widespread misunderstanding about when President Trump’s withdrawal of DACA status for young immigrants will put them at risk of deportation. Even some key policymakers assume that nothing bad will happen until March 5, and, thus, there’s no pressing need for policymakers to act before then. But that’s not the case, and policymakers should act expeditiously to protect these young… → Read More
Commentary: Congressional Budget Plan a Major Step Toward Costly, Ill-Advised Tax Cuts
The House’s expected adoption today of the Senate-passed budget resolution will set in motion a fast-track process to enact a tax bill that would drive up budget deficits by $1.5 trillion over the coming decade. → Read More
Child Tax Credit Increases in GOP Tax Plan Exclude Millions of Children in Low-Income Working Families
The plan’s proposal would exclude at least 16 million children in low-income working families. → Read More
Greenstein: Alexander-Murray Agreement an Important Step Toward Bipartisanship on Health Care
The agreement that Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray announced represents an important step toward bipartisan action on health care and away from damaging attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), radically overhaul and cut Medicaid, and take coverage away from tens of millions of people. → Read More
Greenstein: Senate GOP Budget’s Regressive Tax Cuts Would Swell Deficits, Likely Lead to Budget Cuts Hitting Most Americans
Senate Budget Committee Chair Mike Enzi’s 2018 budget resolution would grease the legislative wheels for $1.5 trillion in tax cuts that are very heavily skewed toward the most well-off. → Read More
Consistent With Our Values, Congress Should Protect Young Undocumented Immigrants
Since announcing that it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the Administration has taken contradictory positions: It has claimed without evidence that DACA’s reprieve from deportation for young undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children harms the job prospects of native born Americans, but it also has pressed Congress to enact a DACA-like program… → Read More
Commentary: SNAP’s Bipartisan Legacy Can Serve as a Model
Forty years ago this Friday, President Carter signed into law the landmark 1977 Food Stamp Act, setting the framework for the modern Food Stamp Program — or, as it’s now known, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. → Read More
Greenstein: Census Data Show Largest Two-Year Income Gain in Five Decades, Progress Against Poverty in 2016
Today’s Census data bring good news on income, poverty, and health coverage. → Read More
House Budget Committee Proposal to Verify Incomes of All EITC Filers Would Delay Refunds, Raise Administrative Costs, and Divert IRS Resources
The change would be a massive undertaking that almost certainly would require months of work and would interfere with the IRS’ ability to perform other functions. → Read More
Congress' Packed Fall Agenda Offers Opportunities for Bipartisan Progress
The items on Congress' plate this fall are daunting. → Read More
Commentary: Congress’ Packed Fall Agenda Offers Opportunities for Bipartisan Progress
Republican House and Senate leaders need to decide whether to seek reasonable, bipartisan solutions or to push highly partisan proposals. → Read More