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Image Sharon Parrott is President of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Parrott has nearly three decades of experience at the Center and in government. Her expertise spans a broad range of issues, including policies to reduce poverty and expand opportunity, the intersection of the federal budget and low-income programs, and the use of data and analysis to inform policy debates. Parrott rejoined the Center in 2017 after two years at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and served a...

The Senate should pass the bill as quickly as possible so that these critical relief measures can begin to reach those who need it.

Image Juliette Legendre is a Research Associate with the State Fiscal Project team. Legendre was previously a research intern with the State Fiscal Project team, focusing on immigration and climate policies. Prior to joining the Center, they were a Next Leader fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where they researched and published analysis on far-right politics, French politics, and the solidarity economy movement. They hold a dual bachelor degree in Economics and International Affairs ...

Samantha Waxman is a policy analyst within the State Fiscal Project. Her work focuses on tax credits for low-income families and budget and tax rules in states. Prior to joining the Center in 2017,...

December 10, 2019 Two key tax credit provisions in the COVID relief legislation that the House passed February 27 would provide significant help to those on the fault lines of some of the pandemic’s worst economic effects. People who have lower incomes, are Black or Latino, have less than a college education, or work in face-to-face service occupations have long faced barriers to high-paying jobs and opportunity, which the pandemic and its economic fallout have...

9,759 Sidelined in the pandemic economy = officially unemployed, absent from work without pay and lost pay due to the pandemic, or not in the labor force and not looking for work due to the pandemic. Source: CBPP analysis of basic monthly CPS public use microdata files and COVID-19 supplemental data files. Moreover, as we’ve already discussed, official unemployment statistics badly understate the number of workers deprived of pay amid the pandemic. They only count people who actively looked f...

Report November 13, 2018 The House-passed COVID-19 relief bill, the American Rescue Plan, would temporarily increase the Child Tax Credit and make the full Child Tax Credit available to all children except those in families with the highest incomes (sometimes called making the credit “fully refundable”). This proposal would markedly reduce the number of children with incomes below the poverty line while narrowing the gap in poverty rates between white children and Bl...

Danilo Trisi is the Director of Poverty and Inequality Research. His work primarily focuses on trends in poverty, deep poverty, income inequality, the labor market, and the effectiveness of economic...

Image Floyd joined the Center in June 2011 as a Research Associate with the Family Income Support Division, and is now Senior Policy Analyst. Prior to joining the Center, Floyd served as an AmeriCorp VISTA with Culture Connect, Inc. and developed a cultural competency workshop series for professional workplaces in the Atlanta area. In addition, she also worked with the Atlanta Community Food Bank’s Prosperity Campaign as a benefits screener to increase access to programs like SNAP, TANF, and ...