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Image Sam Washington is a Research Assistant with the Center’s Federal Fiscal Policy team. Previously, she interned for FairVote, the Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group, and the Century Foundation. She also conducted research on the Affordable Care Act and racial prejudice with the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Political Science. Sam has a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences. Recent work

Image Laura Meyer is a Research Associate with the Family Income Support team. Prior to joining the Center, she worked at the National Partnership for Women & Families on their Economic Justice team, covering areas such as paid leave, paid sick days, and other work-life policy issues. She also worked in nonprofit development at Children’s Law Center in Washington, D.C. Laura graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in political science and art history. Recent work

Image George Fenton is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Federal Fiscal Policy team. His prior policy experience includes an internship at the Treasury Department and two years as a Research Assistant at the Federal Reserve Board. George is completing his economics Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, where his fields are labor and public economics, and his dissertation includes research on what shapes people’s preferences for taxation and redistribution in an era of rising income inequality. ...

Share The Trump Administration approved policies in 13 state demonstration projects (or “waivers”) that take Medicaid coverage away from people who don’t comply with stringent work requirements. Implementation of all these policies is on hold due to litigation and the pandemic. Taking coverage away from enrollees or otherwise conditioning coverage on meeting a work requirement doesn’t further Medicaid’s purposes — which demonstrations must do — and accordingly, the Biden Administr...

Similarly, in a Congressional Research Service report of June 2019, Jane Gravelle and Donald Marples highlighted that: Workers did not see the increase in wages that proponents of corporate tax cuts promised: “There is no indication of a surge in wages in 2018 either compared to history or to GDP growth.” They also noted that gains in worker wages depend on increases in investment that ultimately raise productivity, but the investment data do not reveal investment increases either. Dispropo...

Image Samantha Jacoby is a Senior Tax Legal Analyst with the Center’s Federal Fiscal Policy division. Prior to joining the Center in 2018, she practiced tax law at two international law firms in New York and Washington, D.C. Previously, she worked as a policy and research analyst at the Solar Energy Industries Association, where she focused on the impact of tax incentives on the energy industry. She earned a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She holds an M.P.P. in public fi...

Image Jennifer Wagner joined the Center in 2015 and is a member of the health team. She focuses primarily on Medicaid eligibility and enrollment issues including the policy, operations, and technology that affects the enrollment experience for clients and staff. She also coordinates with SNAP and TANF staff to analyze opportunities to improve access and advance coordination with Medicaid. Before joining the Center, Wagner served for five years as an Associate Director with the Illinois Departme...

    A new era begins today for people who get their health coverage though the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces and for many others seeking affordable coverage. The American Rescue Plan’s...

U.S. territories face yet another sharp drop in federal Medicaid funding this September when a temporary federal funding boost is set to expire, and the stakes are even higher this time due to...

In Case You Missed It... March 12, 2021, 4:15 pm | By CBPP Share CBPP’s main focus this week was enactment of the American Rescue Plan Act. We released an overview of several key parts of the Act as well as reports covering specific policy areas: