One of the coolest projects I got to work on at @us.policyengine.org Read how we developed a tool that @govdanmckee.bsky.social used to help craft the CTC proposal included in his FY2027 budget in the thread below:

Removing the $2,500 earning requirement to begin receiving the Child Tax Credit would provide a maximum benefit of $375 for households in CTC phase-in range. Read my analysis of the Stronger Start for Working Families Act at @us.policyengine.org in the thread below:

Read my latest below:

Happy to say I am now working full-time at @policyengine.org! I will be continuing to enhance our state income tax model and cover legislative developments as a Research Analyst.

Gotta say it’s pretty remarkable that Bari Weiss is unfamiliar with the Streisand effect. This is about to be the most viewed 60 minutes episode in a long time. (also lol the irony of The Free Press trying to kill a story because it makes the regime look bad)

Tlaib's plan includes The Baby Bonus Act [that] allows families to offset the cost of pregnancy, supplement a few weeks of unpaid leave, or purchase everything necessary to care for their newborn. jacobin.com/2025/11/tlai...

In a new article for @jacobinmag.bsky.social, @dtrim99.bsky.social uses PolicyEngine to calculate the impact of @reprashida.govpeeps.us's "Economic Dignity for All Agenda" on poverty, inequality, and the budget. jacobin.com/2025/11/tlai...

this is why people very far into the upper middle class should support building out a proper welfare state like @reprashida.govpeeps.us proposed the other day. you'd pay just a little for a tremendous amount of material security www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...

My analysis of Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Economic Dignity for All Agenda reposted at @jacobinmag.bsky.social: jacobin.com/2025/11/tlai...

yeah, but Zohran is working on it! and Rashida Tlaib has some good related ideas www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...

Great to see Rep Tlaib's team use PolicyEngine to design her new policy reform.

This is quite interesting as it ends the CTC and EITC and creates a big child allowance (5600/y), a 2k baby bonus and a 3k/y UBI for adults 19-67. The Policy Engine (CC: @maxghenis.bsky.social )folks did an analysis of the net impacts... www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...

In a new article for People's Policy Project, @dtrim99.bsky.social used PolicyEngine to estimate the impact of @reprashida.govpeeps.us's Economic Dignity for All Agenda, finding the cash assistance package would (in 2026): * Reduce poverty by 42% * Lower the Gini index by 8.1% * Cost $685 billion

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have a bill in Congress. Its name: the Baby Bonus Act

Got a big announcement tomorrow. Really excited for it, stay tuned.

SB 79 PASSED! APARTMENTS NEXT TO ALL RAPID TRANSIT STATIONS IN CALIFORNIA ARE NOW LEGAL! THIS IS HUGE!!!

🤝 Big news: PolicyEngine and @nber.org have signed an MOU to ensure researchers worldwide continue accessing critical tax microsimulation tools. We're building an open-source TAXSIM emulator, combining NBER's 50+ years of tax expertise with modern open-source infrastructure.

While the 6th-largest city’s transit system utterly collapses, here’s a gentle reminder that the Pennsylvania Turnpike has $17.37 billion in debt on the books, for all those who think roads and highways make money.

Imagine if we did some sort of "Fully Refundable Child Tax Credit" in the US. Maybe child poverty would be substantially reduced while such a program was in place!

🎉 PolicyEngine has been awarded a $300,000 Phase I POSE grant from NSF (Award No. 2518372) to expand our open-source platform, build sustainable governance, and grow our contributor community! https://policyengine.org/us/research/nsf-pose-phase-1-grant

Happy Birthday Social Security 🫡

Nearly 100,000 women and children in Gaza are facing “severe acute malnutrition.” This is a feature of Israel’s war, not a bug. From @ryanlcooper.com:

New: A 50-year-old federal rule has stifled affordable housing. Congress may finally, at long last, do something about it www.vox.com/policy/42025...

that's right www.peoplespolicyproject.org/projects/the...

my Supreme Court reform proposal is simple: just expand the court to 13 justices, one to oversee each circuit court. every justice shall serve a 13-year term, with the president appointing a new justice every year

Remember when JD Vance & the "realignment" right were talking about increasing the child tax credit to $5000? I assume they secured that win for America in the budget bill. Let's check the numbers— Oh wait it's only a $200 annual increase? And the poorest families are still excluded from it? No way!

NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani.

Last night, @bradlander.bsky.social and I exposed Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace on the debate stage. With early voting starting tomorrow, we're cross-endorsing to defeat the ex-Gov. and win a city everyone can afford. Rank Brad #2!

At least it wasn’t Gottheimer.

Supreme Court Signals That It Will Declare Removal Protections for NLRB Members Unconstitutional www.nlrbedge.com/p/supreme-co...

Claim: SALT Caucus members say the cap in the W&M bill is inadequate to deliver real tax relief for middle-class families. Reality: Raising the cap to $62k/$124k would lower the tax liability of households in the top decile by $2,621 and $13 or less for those in the bottom five.

The tax bill approved by the W&M Committee includes a $30k SALT cap, phasing down to $10k for households above $400k. Using @us.policyengine.org, the SALT cap would raise federal revenues by $937 billion over ten years, conditional on other provisions in the tax package.

The new W&M draft extends the TCJA’s standard deduction provisions and boosts the amounts for tax years 2025-2028 as follows: - $1,000 for single and separate filers - $1,500 for HoH - $2,000 for joint filers and surviving spouses

New Ways & Means draft extends TCJA's AMT provisions while letting the SALT cap expire. Since AMT limits SALT benefits, filers would gain more from SALT than they did pre-TCJA. For example, a joint filer with $250k income faces these effective SALT caps in 2026: Current law: $38,876 W&M: $72,747

Yesterday at the Future of Think Tanks Hackathon, @pavelmakarchuk.bsky.social, Daphne Hansell and I built a prototype tool to generate legislation from @policyengine.org simulations using LLMs. We hope to integrate this into the platform soon. Try it here: policyengine-legislation.streamlit.app

Happy Tax Day Everyone! Last year I turned 25 and started a new job in August. Because of my age and earnings in 2024, I qualified for the Earned Income Tax Credit! Using @us.policyengine.org, I can calculate my federal EITC and state EITC, as well as my taxes and net income.

So I’m working on a post for @us.policyengine.org covering Mississippi’s income tax rate reduction. And they are on track to fully eliminate their income tax due to typos in a bill the Mississippi Senate did not catch until after voting and passing the bill. Let me explain.

ChatGPT ass presidency

we're not touching the stove. We're not laying on the stove. At this point we're doing a quintuple backflip into an Olympic sized swimming pool full of stoves.

TRUMP ALSO SIGNING EXECUTIVE ORDER TO CLOSE DE MINIMIS EXEMPTION FROM CHINA

Headline: Key House Republican opposes Medicaid cuts Content: Key House Republican supports Medicaid cuts via FMAP reductions www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Important to celebrate the W’s. Eat shit, Elon