No tax distribution table can present every nuance associated withestimated changes in the distribution of taxes. It is possible toinclude enough information so that the results are not presented ina biased or misleading manner (although there is little assurancethey will not be interpreted and reported in a biased andmisleading manner). Until distribution tables are abandoned orreformed, the best defenses against misleading tables are educationand full disclosure of information.
Samantha Garbers, PhD works with a diverse range of clinical- and community-based stakeholders to develop, adapt, implement, and evaluate innovative interventions to improve public health for diverse populations including sexual and gender minority youth and adults, adolescent males and women seeking reproductive health care, Latinx and Black communities, and individuals with limited health literacy. Using her training as an epidemiologist, Dr. Garbers works with stakeholders to integrate rigorous methods for process and outcome evaluation into interventions, with a focus on reproductive health. She is currently Co-Principal Investigator of an NIMHD-funded study to develop and test an intervention integrating mind-body integrative health approaches with sleep hygiene to improve sleep among teens served in school-based health centers in NYC. She recently served as Lead Evaluator for a federally-funded randomized controlled trial of a motivational interviewing intervention for teen pre