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Sep 18, 2026
2025 Supplemental Poverty Measure: what Census reported, and what threshold growth did to it
Census reported 13.1 percent SPM poverty in 2025, up 0.1 point from 2024. We show the rate by age, housing tenure, and state, and find it would have fallen 0.7 points if thresholds rose with inflation.
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Sep 17, 2026
FUTA taxable wage base dashboard
Estimates the federal revenue from raising the FUTA taxable wage base from $7,000 (unchanged since 1983) to $43,000 in 2026, roughly the median annual wage, and indexing it to inflation: $317 billion over ten years, with year-by-year results, validation against IRS collections, and a downloadable CSV, using PolicyEngine microsimulation.
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Sep 15, 2026
Child poverty impact dashboard
Estimate how federal and state tax and benefit reforms — Child Tax Credits, EITCs, child allowances, dependent exemptions, and SNAP — would affect child poverty, household incomes, and state budgets in all 50 states and DC, using PolicyEngine microsimulation.
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Aug 9, 2026
SNAP payment error simulator
Simulate each state's measured SNAP payment error rate from its own Quality Control cases: cost-share tier probabilities under the FY 2028 formula, the FY 2025 vs FY 2026 election, audit-volume effects, and a verified case-level model scenario.
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Jul 13, 2026
NJ Child Tax Credit increase calculator
See the impact of New Jersey's enacted 25% Child Tax Credit increase (P.L.2026, c.26) on New Jersey households, statewide and by congressional district
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